In addition to the feature branching you could also look into feature toggles. A feature toggle is a variable used in a conditional statement to guard code blocks, with the aim of either enabling or disabling the feature code in those blocks for testing or release. While this approach would not prevent unapproved code from being in a release, it would act as a gatekeeper to determine if a specific feature should be exposed to the end user.
I however am not sure how you could address your concern for the database
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In addition to the feature branching you could also look into feature toggles. A feature toggle is a variable used in a conditional statement to guard code blocks, with the aim of either enabling or disabling the feature code in those blocks for testing or release. While this approach would not prevent unapproved code from being in a release, it would act as a gatekeeper to determine if a specific feature should be exposed to the end user. I however am not sure how you could address your concern for the database