Install the server and create a repository but couldn't seem to get it connected The end, I found a blog site that walked me through the process. If I understood more about Subversion itself, this would have made sense. To begin with,Īfraid I didn't find this explanation adequate to get up and running.
Of information out there about how to set up and use Subversion. He said he regularly recommends it to all his clients and made anĮxcellent argument that convinced me to implement it in my office. Users Group meeting who has been using it for years to synchronize his desktopĪnd laptop. It was obscure to me but I spoke with someone at a Visual Studio Setting up SubversionĪn open source application for controlling file versions that has been aroundįor about a decade. Team mentioned earlier and don't use Team Foundation Server, I opted to set upĪ Subverson server and have linked the Red Gate product to it. Server or a Subversion source control system. Server Management Studio that integrates with Team Foundation I'm currently running version 0.3.3.1 which willĬontrol product is effectively a snap-in for SQL With the "early access program" which, while free, has required a Of this writing, there is no posted price for the product.
It would be redundant for me to reproduce them here not to mentionĪ possible copyright infringement and the fact that technical specificationsīore me. Suggest that you check out the SQL Source Control page at the Red Gate websiteĭetails. Reviewing it for some months now and I'm ready to share my conclusions. It may not be perfect, but it's darn close. They pointed me to a couple of white pagesīut honestly, that wasn't a perfect solution either. Time, I remember having some conversations with the people at Red Gate where IĮxplained what I was doing with SQL Compare and asked if they had anyĪlternative source control ideas. The SQL Server objects more than others did. I merely inherited the responsibility because I cared about managing Microsoft Access application to a web app so the database wasn't my onlyĬoncern. I was, in fact, an application developer transitioning our It was an imperfect system but it was all we had.ĭBAs are already chastising me for giving the web developers ANY rights toĬreate and modify database objects but we were a small team and we all wore Were enough to help me track down what had been changed by the web developers. Schedule but even my manually generated, twice daily object definition dumps I never got obsessedĮnough to script the command line interface to make snapshots on some regular Objects could not be controlled using the Microsoft Team Foundation ServerĪpproach was to use my favorite Red Gate tool, SQLĬompare, to take snapshots of the database objects. Sad to say, my team was not and the database Management Studio for keeping database objects in source control, but they only Project and I was determined to put the objects into source control. A few years ago, I was on a team starting a new web database Red Gate SQL Source Control is a simple and elegant solution that doesn't depend on other developers using the snap-in.
SQL Server Management Studio has some neat tools for keeping database objects in source control, but they only work if everyone is on board.