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Tom Silva 4 hours ago

The nineteen-month figure matches what I have seen, though ours skewed longer because nobody owned the analytics mirror. Owning the mirror turned out to be the whole fix.

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Mira Osei Author 3 hours ago

That matches our experience exactly. The register in footnote two exists because of a mirror nobody owned.

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Dana Køhler 6 hours ago

Worth adding that on MySQL 8 the online DDL path makes the add cheap but the drop expensive, which is the opposite of what most people assume.

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Lena Rask Moderator Yesterday

Pinning this thread — the register template linked in the footnotes has been asked about four times this week.

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Ravi Gopal 22 hours ago

Is there a version of the template for event schemas rather than tables? Same problem, different shape.

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Hana Brandt 2 days ago

We now require a removal plan in the migration PR template. Half the columns never get added, which I think is the real win.

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