Robert Sheldon SQL Server Source Control Basics For efficient team-based database development, and reliable and repeatable database deployments, source control is not optional. This book provides just the right combination of theory... 01 May 2014 3 min read
Tom Fischer Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial The move from client-server version ontrol systems (VCS) to distributed version control systems can be bewildering. Tom uses his experience of moving to Mercurial to... 02 April 2013 14 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 10: Extending the reach of Subversion Subversion provides a good way of source-controlling a database, but many operations are best done from within your database-development environmant. Fortunately, several products provide this... 12 February 2013 19 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 9: Server, Repository, and Statistics In the ninth installment of his popular series on using Subversion, Michael describes how to set up a simple Subversion server for a multi-user project... 11 February 2013 13 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook: Part 8: Log Messages There should always be a reason for a commit to source control, so why not make a log message mandatory when you commit, and make... 11 September 2012 18 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 7: Managing Revisions Here are recipes to manage Subversion source control revisions effectively, such as managing revisions, working out the current revision, whether it is up to date,... 30 May 2012 19 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots Moving backwards in time in Subversion is like time travel in science fiction. It's fine to look around, but If you change anything it can... 19 March 2012 14 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 5: Instrumenting Files with Version Information Subversion lets you embed, and automatically update, information within source-controlled files to make it easy to see who did what, and when they did so.... 21 February 2012 19 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code Michael Sorens continues his series on source control with Subversion and TortoiseSVN by describing several ways one can use to share code among several projects.… 13 February 2012 15 min read
Michael Sorens Subversion and TortoiseSVN Cookbook Part 1- The Basics If you have more than zero developers in your team, then you need Source Control. In this article Michael starts a series that aims to... 03 November 2011 23 min read
