The final part of Alex Yates's three-part series tackles the complicated issue of automating deployments when the same table might have a different structure, in different production versions of the database. Read more
In Part 2 of his series, Alex Yates shows how to use a combination of post-deployment scripts to handle cases where a code object exists in multiple production instances, but in different states. Read more
Alex Yates shows how to set up automated processes for SQL Server database source control, build and continuous integration using Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Subversion, and Jenkins Read more
How to use filters in SQL Compare to avoid deploying objects that exist only in the source to databases where they may not be required or appropriate. Read more
This article explains some simple steps to create a GitHub database repository and then version control your SQL Server database, for team development work, using SQL Source Control. Read more
How to use a combination of database roles, along with rules, filters and post deployment scripts in SQL Source Control, to add the required users to the correct role, for each database. Read more
Where developers have their own databases, you need to ensure the user accounts are configured identically across all development and test server, or you'll inevitably hear the phrase “…but it works on my machine”. Alex Yates describes, strategically, how this might work. Read more