Get Your Database Under Version Control
When it comes to version control, the database is often a second or even third-class citizen. From what I've seen, teams that would never think of writing code without version control in a million years-- and rightly so-- can somehow be completely oblivious to the need for version control around the critical databases their applications rely on. I don't know how you can call yourself a software engineer and maintain a straight face when your database isn't under exactly the same rigorous level of source control as the rest of your code. Don't let this happen to you. Get your database under version control.
I was thinking about this again because my friend and co-author K. Scott Allen just wrote a brilliant five part series on the philosophy and practice of database version control:
- Three rules for database work
- The Baseline
- Change Scripts
- Views, Stored Procedures and the Like
- Branching and Merging
posted by SaMhAcKeR @ 1:42 AM
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