Product articles Database Builds and Deployments
Automating database deployments to and from source control using SQL Compare and PowerShell
How to use SQL Compare Pro command line with PowerShell to automate the processes of getting a new database into source control, updating the source with the latest database changes, creating a new build script for a database version, and creating a deployment script to synchronize an existing database with source. Read moreAutomatically keeping ‘hotfix’ and production database schemas in sync
How to use the SQL Compare Pro command line to automatically compare the schema of two versions of the same database, and then subsequently deploy to the target database any differences detected in the source database. Read more
How to build-and-fill multiple development databases using PowerShell and SQL Data Generator
This article offers a build-and-fill method for development databases, where each developer will subsequently want to alter the data or metadata in his or her copy of the database. Read moreHow to Automatically Fill your SQL Server Test Databases with Dummy Data
A PowerShell script to automatically populate a SQL Server database with dummy data, for database development and testing work. Read moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: pre-deploy migration scripts
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 moreAutomating DacPac deployments using the SQL Compare command line and PowerShell
How to extract a database migration script, or a database build script, from a DacPac and then use it in a PowerShell-automated database deployment. Read moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: post-deploy scripts
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
Database CI with Redgate SQL Change Automation, PowerShell and Jenkins
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 moreDeploying schema changes to multiple databases using the SQL Compare command line
How do you push out the schema changes to ten copies of the database on ten different servers, as part of a deployment? Read moreRedgate Hub
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