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。

我们对所有dabase创建的对象进行源代码控制。为了让开发人员保持诚实(因为你可以在没有源代码控制的情况下创建对象)，我们的dba定期寻找不在源代码控制中的任何东西，如果他们找到了什么，他们就会丢弃它，而不询问它是否ok。

是的,总是这样。您应该能够在需要时使用一组有用的示例数据重新创建生产数据库结构。如果你不这样做，随着时间的推移，保持运行的小改变会被遗忘，然后有一天你会被咬，严重的。这是一种保险，你可能认为你不需要，但当你这样做的那一天，它的价格是它的10倍!

是的。代码就是代码。我的经验法则是，我需要能够从头构建和部署应用程序，而不需要查看开发或生产机器。

我已经在http://dbdeploy.com/上使用了ThoughtWorks的dbdeploy工具。它鼓励使用迁移脚本。在每个版本中，我们将更改脚本合并到一个文件中，以简化理解，并允许dba“支持”更改。

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.