Database Version Control

By placing under source control everything we need to describe any version of a database, we make it much easier to achieve consistent database builds and releases, to find out who made which changes and why, and to access all database support materials. Matthew Skelton explains how to make sure your version control system fully supports all phases of the database lifecycle, from governance, development, delivery and through to operations.

Stairway to Database Source Control Level 4: Getting a Database into Source Control (Distributed Repository)

Now that we have our database under source control, we will want to share our work with other developers. If we are in a centralized source control system, our changes may be committed straight into the central repository.

When we are working in a distributed system, it means pulling down any changes from other developers, addressing any areas of conflict, and pushing our changes up to allow others to benefit from our work. This allows our changes to be synchronized with the changes other developers have made.

This level is principally about setting up a distributed source control system, namely Git, and how to commit database development changes to a local repository, before pushing them into a remote 'central' repository for sharing with other developers.

The next level will delve a little deeper into Git's versioning mechanisms, and show some examples of how to share database changes during development, and how to deal with conflicting changes.

Webinar: Database version control - optional or required?

Join Justin Dearing and Elizabeth Ayer to hear about some of the key challenges of database version control, and why it's only a matter of time before it's as essential as good backups and high performance.

Write Cleaner T-SQL Using Version Control

If we only use version control as a way to back up our code then it is pure overhead but actually there are real benefits. We can use source control to write better, cleaner, more readable code.

Database Source Control Workshop - London, UK

Redgate's workshops are coming to London on July 8, 2015. In this workshop, you'll learn how to source control your database, deploy your databases from source control, and monitor and track database changes across development, testing, and production environments. Register while space is available.

Database Source Control Workshop: Philadelphia, PA

Redgate and Ike Ellis are hosting a database source control workshop in Philadelphia PA, on June 4, 2015. Learn all you need to put your development databases in source control, using the version control system of your choice. Register while space is available.

Database source control workshop, Cambridge UK

Redgate is hosting a 1 day public workshop on April 22, 2015. This workshop will teach you how to put a database in source control, deploy a database from source control, and monitor database changes across development, testing, and production environments.

Stairway to Database Source Control Level 3: Working With Others (Centralized Repository)

One of the main purposes of placing a database under source control, alongside the application code, is to allow team collaboration during development projects. The Version Control System (VCS) stores and manages all of the project files, maintaining an audit trail of what changed, and who made the change. Each team member can work on a file, or set of files, and submit their changes to the VCS to make them available to other team members. They can also inspect the VCS to discover recent changes made by other team members.

SQL Server Source Control Basics

Source control can and should play a key role in the database development and deployment process, and this book will show you exactly how to get started.

SQL Server Source Control Basics

Source control can and should play a key role in the database development and deployment process, and this book will show you exactly how to get started.

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