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SQL Database Version Control and RENAMEs

You’ve just watched Josh Berkus’ presentation “Ten Ways to Wreck Your Database” and bearing in mind point #2 “ranDom_naming(s),” your team has decided to get your act together and adopt a naming convention (although this may not be advantageous to … Continue reading

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Version Control, Part 2: SQL Databases

In Part 1 we saw how Alice and Bob used a VCS to manage changes to a file of movie information.  In this post, we’ll examine how Carol and Dave, database specialists, deal with similar changes while developing the same … Continue reading

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