SQL Source Control

Back around the turn of the millennium and during the final heights of the dot com boom, I found myself in London building the UX for the brand new online-only cahoot bank [http://www.cahoot.co.uk/]. (I then realised the miserable weather I was enduring was, in fact, summer and hastily returned to a balmy Aussie winter. But I digress.) As with most things dot com, days regularly stretched into nights and frequently consisted of copious amounts of both caffeine and beer. Mistakes were made. The...

I must have struck a chord with the folks at Red Gate recently when I wrote about Automated database releases with TeamCity and Red Gate [https://www.troyhunt.com/2011/02/automated-database-releases-with.html]. Inadvertently, I managed to get this post out right in the final stages of their work on SQL Source Control 2 which added the ability to version static data. This was pretty opportune timing and caused me to rewrite – and significantly simplify – a fair swathe of the post. Clearly the po...

Databases have long been the poor cousin of the application tier when it comes to many of the processes we take for granted in the .NET world. Source control management, for example, is near ubiquitous for application files and there are several excellent VCS products which make versioning a breeze. Continuous integration is another practice which although not as common, is still frequently present in a robust application lifecycle. Of course the problem is that database objects don’t exist as...

I’ve previously written about Rocking your SQL Source Control world with Red Gate [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/07/rocking-your-sql-source-control-world.html] and was bullishly optimistic about the potential for finally providing the means for simple, effective version control of database objects. It turns out the post struck a chord with the folks at Red Gate and they asked me if I’d like to contribute to an article in Simple-Talk [http://www.simple-talk.com], a fantastic bi-monthly newsletter...

I’m a big fan of Red Gate’s SQL Source Control [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Source_Control/index.htm], I really am. I raved about it [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/07/rocking-your-sql-source-control-world.html] earlier in the year and I still think it’s the best solution going for getting your databases under source control with Subversion. However, I’ve hit a glitch which unless I’m wrong, appears to be a bit of a design flaw; versioning changes in case. Let’s say I have a table, crea...

I knew it was going to be good before even seeing it. After all, SQL Source Control [http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_source_control/index.htm] is from the guys who brought us SQL Compare [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Compare/index.htm] and Data compare [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Data_Compare/index.htm], two of my all-time favourite tools in the “stuff that would be a real pain to do without” category. They’re tools I tend to berate developers for not having and have regul...