# TestBash World 2022 - Testing in the Imperial Database with Samuel Nitsche

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-world-2022-testing-in-the-imperial-database-with-samuel-nitsche/59971>\
**Category:** 🪐 TestBash\
**Tags:** automation, quality, testbash-world\
**Created:** [23 June 2022 08:35 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-world-2022-testing-in-the-imperial-database-with-samuel-nitsche/59971 "2022-06-23T08:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![dianadromey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/dianadromey/32/7839_2.png) [@dianadromey](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/dianadromey)\
**Post date:** [23 June 2022 08:35 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-world-2022-testing-in-the-imperial-database-with-samuel-nitsche/59971/1 "2022-06-23T08:35:31Z")

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In this talk, @samuel will take you on a journey to the infamous Death Star, where the Galactic Empire runs the Imperial Database™ with all the expectable problems of a complex, long-running software system.

We’ll use this Club thread to share resources mentioned during the session and answer any questions we don’t get to during the live session.

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**Author:** ![tehreemfatima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@tehreemfatima](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/tehreemfatima)\
**Post date:** [23 June 2022 09:53 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-world-2022-testing-in-the-imperial-database-with-samuel-nitsche/59971/2 "2022-06-23T09:53:02Z")

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# Questions Answered Online:

1. From you personal experience, what are the biggest challenges in DB testing, when you’re just starting out with this kind of testing? @mirza
2. Who writes your automated checks - devs or testers or a combo? @Annonymous
3. How do can we keep our tests up to date with the say changing DB schema? Do we migrate tests? for RDMS a lot of the times developer use ORM so such things. @AhmedMubashirKhan
4. Will you suggest any SQL-validator tools which could help someone starting out in database testing? Specially for testers who are not technically-inclined @marksimone.cabie
5. Is that an alpaca or a llama? @deborahreid

# Questions not answered online

1. Are there any GDPR concerns with making fixes to the database?
2. Won’t Darth Vader be angry now he isn’t drawing all 3 of his Salaries?
3. what about the client of the DB, isn’t that a dependency? might require Auth and stuff?
4. Is Darth a3….. a llama or cat?