Database Upgrades

As anyone that's worked in a big company knows, sometimes the greatest impediment to work is 'It works, why change it?' While I understand with the concept, and agree with it at times, when there's a change I want to make, like upgrading a two year old database to a new version, without a bug, it's really annoying.

I have to justify it, and wait for everyone to agree to a time for me to do it. While I think that 'it fixes this bug that's causing problems' is a good justification, there are those that disagree with me.

So. first step is: upgrade the development database, so I have an idea how long it'll take. Then, and only then, I get to try to get people to agree to downtime.

Well, at least it's likely to be a weekend, so I'd be paid for it.