Working and making plans with Eric on the deployment of his sales tax aggregation project. We went over some general questions and then got deeper into the project. Eric was explaining his processes and line by line SQL stuff. Pretty deep. This particular update has advanced SQL and procedural SQL pieces such as creating tables, adding columns, setting up events and schedules. It also sets up stored procedures and special triggers, all on the same update/project.

We spent some time talking about deployment and options, so an not to overload the servers. We have to be conscience of the possible users who will be on the servers and what normal loads they will be doing. There is no way to shut everything fully down. We some clients that go 24/7 and we have 20-30 servers that need the same updates. Pretty deep. We will be planning some smaller test runs before we do anything too aggressive.