DbUpdater

Version Aware Database Schema Deployment Download : DbUpdater v 1.4 (License:GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)) Copyright © 2008 : Ash Tewari www.tewari.info DbUpdater is a free tool that helps you implement the database schema version control system described by K. Scott Allen in this set of articles : Three rules for database work The Baseline Change Scripts Views, Stored Procedures and the Like Branching and Merging Usage : First read the articles listed above. The file prefix for change scripts is “db”, by default. You can change it in the config file. DbUpdater supports the baseline script as well as post-scripts. Make sure the database you are going to put under version control is already created. Specify the […]

Database Schema Version Control Tool

February 18, 2008May 22, 2022 tewari

It is essential to treat database schema as source code and apply all the norms and best practices applicable to it. From what I hear and read, database schema version control is non-existent in too many projects. Various techniques to accomplish version control of database schemas have been discussed and published. Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadagale has written a comprehensive article on Evolutionary Database Design. It is a must-read for everyone involved with database development. K. Scott Allen writes in detail about an excellent system here – Versioning Databases – Change Scripts. This approach is sufficiently light-weight (for my taste) and provides complete control over the whole process. I am providing a free tool here that you can use to […]