Case Study: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education achieves synchronized database development and faster, automated deployments with DBmaestro

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Customer Case Study

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which supports reporting for over 950,000 students, relies on a complex set of in-house databases and a data warehouse to deliver timely assessment and statistical data. After budget cuts left a smaller IT team, developers — including third‑party contractors — were creating independent deployment scripts, overwriting each other’s work and forcing a developer to spend up to six weeks consolidating and preparing scripts for rollout, creating delays and quality issues.

The department deployed DBmaestro to enforce a check‑out/check‑in development model with full version history, audit trails, baselines and rollbacks, automated impact analysis and accurate deployment script generation, and promotion across dev, QA, UAT and production. As a result, script consolidation that once took six weeks is now done in a fraction of the time with higher quality, clearer ownership of database objects, fewer reworks, improved productivity and higher team morale.

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Dan Boyle

Supervisor of Database