A big problem, often overlooked, is that for larger web based systems, it is required to have a transitional period or bucket testing approach to making new releases. This makes it essential to have both rollback and a mechanism for supporting both the old and new schema in the same DB. This requires a scaffolding approach (made populist by the Agile DB folks). In this scenario, lack of process in DB source control can be a total disaster. You need old schema scripts, new schema scripts and a set of intermediate scripts, as well as a tidy up, once the system is fully on the new version (or rolled back).

需要的不是从头开始重新创建模式的脚本，而是一种基于状态的方法，在这种方法中，您只需要脚本将DB从一个版本移动到另一个版本，向前或向后移动到所需的状态。您的DB变成了一系列状态脚本，可以轻松地对其进行源代码控制，并与源代码的其余部分一起标记。

我对创建脚本进行了版本控制，并在其中使用了svn版本标记。然后，每当我得到一个将要使用的版本时，我就在dbpatches/目录中创建一个脚本，命名为要上卷到的版本。该脚本的任务是在不破坏数据的情况下修改当前数据库。例如，Dbpatches /可能有名为201、220和240的文件。如果数据库当前处于201级别，则应用补丁220，然后再应用补丁240。

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `meta`;
CREATE TABLE `meta` (
  `property` varchar(255),
  `value` varchar(255),
  PRIMARY KEY (`property`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `meta` VALUES ('version', '$Rev: 240 $');

在考虑一个好的补丁之前，不要忘记测试你的代码。购者自慎!

必须阅读将数据库置于版本控制之下。查看K. Scott Allen的系列帖子。

When it comes to version control, the database is often a second or even third-class citizen. From what I've seen, teams that would never think of writing code without version control in a million years-- and rightly so-- can somehow be completely oblivious to the need for version control around the critical databases their applications rely on. I don't know how you can call yourself a software engineer and maintain a straight face when your database isn't under exactly the same rigorous level of source control as the rest of your code. Don't let this happen to you. Get your database under version control.

仅供参考，几天前Dana也提出了这个问题…源代码控制中的存储过程/DB模式

The most successful scheme I've ever used on a project has combined backups and differential SQL files. Basically we would take a backup of our db after every release and do an SQL dump so that we could create a blank schema from scratch if we needed to as well. Then anytime you needed to make a change to the DB you would add an alter scrip to the sql directory under version control. We would always prefix a sequence number or date to the file name so the first change would be something like 01_add_created_on_column.sql, and the next script would be 02_added_customers_index. Our CI machine would check for these and run them sequentially on a fresh copy of the db that had been restored from the backup.

我们还准备了一些脚本，开发人员可以用一个命令将本地db重新初始化到当前版本。

Your project team can have a DBA to whom every developer would forward their create alter, delete, insert/update (for master data) sql statements. DBAs would run those queries and on successfully making the required update would add those statements to a text file or a spreadsheet. Each addition can be labeled as a savepoint. Incase you revert back to a particular savepoint, just do a drop all and run the queries uptil the labelled savepoint. This approach is just a thought... a bit of fine tuning here would work for your development environment.