如果你的数据库是SQL Server，我们可能有你正在寻找的解决方案。SQL源代码控制1.0现在已经发布了。

http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Source_Control/index.htm

它集成到SSMS中，并提供数据库对象和VCS之间的粘合剂。“脚本输出”是透明的(它在底层使用SQL比较引擎)，这应该使它使用起来如此简单，以至于开发人员不会被阻止采用该过程。

一个可供选择的Visual Studio解决方案是ReadyRoll，它被实现为SSDT数据库项目的子类型。这采用了一种迁移驱动的方法，更适合DevOps团队的自动化需求。

我们维护由ER工具(PowerAMC)生成的DDL(有时是DML)脚本。

我们有一个shell脚本工作台，它重命名以主干分支上的数字开头的脚本。 提交每个脚本并标记bugzilla编号。

这些脚本在需要时与应用程序代码合并到发布分支中。

我们有一个记录脚本及其状态的表。 在部署工具的每次安装中，每个脚本都按顺序执行，并记录在此表中。

我所见过的最佳实践是创建一个构建脚本，在登台服务器上废弃并重新构建数据库。每次迭代都有一个用于数据库更改的文件夹，所有更改都用“Drop…创建“”。这样，您可以通过将构建指向您想要版本的文件夹，随时回滚到较早的版本。

我相信这是用NaNt/CruiseControl完成的。

我使用SQL CREATE脚本从MySQL workbench导出，然后使用他们的“导出SQL ALTER”功能，我最终得到了一系列创建脚本(当然编号)和ALTER脚本，可以应用它们之间的更改。

3.- Export SQL ALTER script Normally you would have to write the ALTER TABLE statements by hand now, reflecting your changes you made to the model. But you can be smart and let Workbench do the hard work for you. Simply select File -> Export -> Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script… from the main menu. This will prompt you to specify the SQL CREATE file the current model should be compared to. Select the SQL CREATE script from step 1. The tool will then generate the ALTER TABLE script for you and you can execute this script against your database to bring it up to date. You can do this using the MySQL Query Browser or the mysql client.Voila! Your model and database have now been synchronized!

来源:MySQL Workbench Community Edition: Schema同步指南

当然，所有这些脚本都在版本控制下。

I agree with many of the posting concerning ruby's ActiveRecord migrations - they are an elegant way to manage the database in small incremental files that everyone can share. With that said, I've recently implemented a project using VisualStudio's Database Project, and it's kinda made me a believer. Short story - you create a database project, import all (if any) existing database objects into it (tables/views/triggers/keys/users/etc). That import results in a "Create" script per object. To manage the database you alter the create script and then on deploy VS compares the target database to the state of the database residing in your project and apply the proper alter statements.

这真的有点神奇，我必须承认，这是VS团队做的更好的事情之一。到目前为止，我真的很感动。

当然，您可以在自己选择的版本控制系统中管理整个数据库项目。

My team versions our database schema as C# classes with the rest of our code. We have a homegrown C# program (<500 lines of code) that reflects the classes and creates SQL commands to build, drop and update the database. After creating the database we run sqlmetal to generate a linq mapping, which is then compiled in another project that is used to generate test data. The whole things works really well because data access is checked at compile time. We like it because the schema is stored in a .cs file which is easy to track compare in trac/svn.