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SQL Compare Database Source Control
Reverse-Engineering the Production Database into Source Control
Starting out a new database development with source control is relatively easy. To introduce source control into an existing database application can be more challenging. Phil Factor explains some of the fundamental steps. Read more
Database Source Control in Azure Data Studio
How developers who were previously writing and managing database source code in SSMS can make a smooth transition to Azure Data Studio. Read moreCustom Deployments from Source Control using SQL Compare Command line
Giorgi Abashidze explains how his team use a 2-phase deployment process with SQL Compare Command line, and some SQL Synonyms, to automate custom deployments for each of their customers, while only needing to maintain one branch per release in source control. Read more
How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt
A PowerShell automation script to build a SQL Server database from source control, seed it with dummy data, document it, and then deploy copies to any number of test and development servers. Read moreRetrospective Database Source Control with SQL Compare
You've found a database that is not in source control. What do you do? Phil Factor shows how to use SQL Compare to generate all the missing object scripts, in Git, and then keep them up-to-date automatically, in response to any further database changes, during development. Read moreSQL Compare Snapshots: a lightweight database version control and rollback mechanism
During the proof-of-concept phase of development work, SQL Compare Snapshots offer an easy way to work out what broke, if a change causes some tests to fail, as well as a simple ‘roll back’ technique to return quickly to the last working copy. Read moreHow to deploy a database plus static data using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare
Tony Davis shows how to get a database, plus any static data, into source control, and then uses the "/include:StaticData" switch in the SQL Compare Pro command line, fromPowerShell, to automate the process of creating a new build script. Read moreAutomating 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 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 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 moreHow to build multiple database versions from the same source: object filters
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 moreHow to create a directory of object-level scripts using SQL Compare
How to create a directory of object-level scripts from an existing database using SQL Compare GUI or command line. Read moreRedgate Hub
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