To get your team onboard with the new database schema, start by explaining the rationale behind the changes, focusing on benefits like improved performance or scalability. Listen to their concerns and encourage an open discussion to address any valid issues. Show flexibility by incorporating their feedback where possible and offer training or support to ease the transition.

Getting the team onboard with schema changes can be daunting. One thing that really helps is to make sure you have considered multiple solutions to the problem, starting with the obvious and working back into the least logical. That shows that you have considered other approaches and decided on the best one. Coming to the discussion with evidence supporting your idea such as performance metrics and user stories can help the team understand the urgency and utility of your proposed changes. Your team needs to understand why you are proposing the changes. Performance improvements and functionality are great reasons to make a change.

When facing pushback on new database schema changes, my approach is to first understand the team's concerns—whether it's about performance, workload, or potential disruptions. I’ve found that clearly communicating the why behind the changes is crucial, especially emphasizing improvements in scalability, performance, and future-proofing the system. I involve the team early on, making it a collaborative process, which not only helps address concerns but also fosters ownership. Providing a clear migration plan, documentation, and offering support during the transition ensures minimal friction. In my experience, open communication and adaptability go a long way in getting buy-in from the team.

- Clearly explain why the changes are necessary. Highlight benefits like improved performance, scalability, or maintainability. - Involve team members in the planning process. Encourage them to provide input and voice their concerns about the changes. - Offer training sessions to familiarize team members with the new schema and its advantages. This can reduce anxiety about the unknown. - Create a safe environment for team members to express their concerns. Show that you value their opinions by actively listening and addressing their points. - Acknowledge and celebrate achievements related to the new schema, reinforcing a positive outlook.

Nine times out of ten, the resistance to making schema changes is really a fear of making a change which breaks your application code or loses data. You must be able to demonstrate: - How data will be migrated to the new schema and what guarantees you have against data-loss. - How the application will continue working during the upgrade, or if there needs to be downtime during the upgrade. - How the application will work after the upgrade. Robust testing and automation are key in this area to increase confidence in an otherwise perilous process.

The professional working world is only increasing its reliance on analytical software/applications hence having a database of some kind from a tracking sheet on SharePoint, to MS-Teams engagement for small teams, to larger databases like IBM's Tririga software. Provide a slow and comprehensive path forward towards training per the following points: (1) understanding the new related genre to the new database; (2) written guidance that can be read, memorized, and referred to; and (3) detailed training and repeated training and as needed or requested individual tutoring.

The most important thing is explaining to your team the importance of the change and it's benefits. Have a detailed brainstorming session with the team, ask for their contributions using the Six "Thinking Hat" approach during your brainstorming meeting.

It's difficult for team members to hear that a database schema needs an update because it's not only the schema but most likely all database objects that will be modified like pipelines, stored procedures, and reports. First, the team needs to understand the change's purpose. Nobody likes to change something that's working but the business needs have changed, so the current solution does not fulfill the customer needs from now on. That will be a project the team members will join together and the new requirements will be absorbed over time. The team will have good results in the mid and long terms, which means to keep the contract with our client, otherwise, some other IT consultancy will provide the solution and take out our stake.