Talking points about database source control used during a round table discussion with Professional Association for SQL Server members.

1. Round-table discussion at fwPASS on 4/26/2011
DATABASE SOURCE/VERSION
CONTROL

2. What is Source Control?
 Process
 Repository

3. Why do I need it?
 Product data management
 Master “golden standard”
 Traceability
 Comparison
 Oops moments

4. Tooling
 Team Foundation Server TFS
 Visual Source Safe </cough>
 RedGate SQL Source Control
 Subversion (svn)
 http://secretgeek.net/dbcontrol.asp

5. Version Control?
 None
 Manual
 Automatic

6. Practices
 <discussion here>

7. What to Control?
 Schema
 Data
 Both

8. Schema Comparison
 DBDiff
 RedGate Compare

9. Back Out Planning
 Database backup
 Back out scripts

10. DDL Script Generation
 Subsonic utility Visual Studio plug-in

11. Thank you!
 Website
 http://www.systemental.com
 Blogs
 http://dean-o.blogspot.com/
 http://practicalhoshin.blogspot.com
 Twitter
 http://www.twitter.com/deanwillson
 Email
 dean@systemental.com
 LinkedIn
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/deanwillson

12. References
 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/
get-your-database-under-version-
control.html
 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/i
s-your-database-under-version-control.html
 http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/20
08/01/30/three-rules-for-database-work.aspx