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Last four steps of our 10-step procedure are described here. 
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Why do people love flexible database schemas?
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This spring, I’m going to organize a Zoom course on how to make sense of typical databases, relational and not. 
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The design space of flexible database schemas, driving forces behind them, and the underlying similarities between traditional relational design and…
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Step 5: read attribute values from both old and new storage.
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Monetary amounts and geo coordinates are examples of pair-typed attribute values.
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Step 4: bulk incremental sync of attribute values from old to new storage; golden cage of convenience.
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Step 2: Implementing cross-checking tool; Step 3: Enabling double-writing of attribute values. 
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Ten-step guide to migrating an attribute to a different physical representation.
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There are interesting use-cases of handling time with the resolution of more than a second: minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters and years.
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Part 6: Getting rid of an anchor is an important symbolic gesture.
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