Simplifying continuous integration and source control

Keep databases in source control and bring them under continuous integration. Discover how SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can help.

Improving database development methods with SQL Compare

This paper surveys several different methodologies of database development, examines their strengths and weaknesses, and illustrates how Red Gate's comparison tools can be incorporated into each model.

The first 10 minutes with SQL Compare

Mike Hadlow, one of the authors of the open source eCommerce application Suteki Shop, describes how easy it was to first use SQL Compare. In spite of having never used SQL Compare before, it took Mike less than 10 minutes to update his first database

The benefits of compare-to-backup

eMedia Interactive use SQL Compare every time they release a new version of their website front end. By comparing their development database to a backup of their production database they generate the necessary schema update scripts.

Using SQL Compare in web development

The Red Gate website – an ASP.NET site running on SQL Server 2000 – recently underwent a major overhaul. Here, Richard Mitchell and Steven Davidson, the developers on the project, describe how they used Red Gate's database schema-comparison tool, SQL Compare, as an integral part of their project environment.