Posted by pb648174 on 07/06/06 11:55

Microsoft also just came out with a beta for the Databae Professional
edition of Visual Studio Team System... Has anyone tried it?

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> metaperl (metaperl@gmail.com) writes:
> > I'm actually taking Microsoft's 2779 and just finished a lab where we
> > kept track of our changes to the database.
> >
> > However, I'm not happy with the scripts interface because it does not
> > tell me the chronological order of my changes to the database.
> >
> > Could someone share with me their technique for keeping track of
> > database changes?
> >
> > I'm actually thinking a set of tables would be best, because sometimes
> > you want to know what database object you made a change to and other
> > times you want to know when you did something...
>
> The baseline for all such activities is the version-control system. SQL
> objects have source code just like any other program code.
>
> In our shop we use Visual SourceSafe out of habit. On top of that we
> have a toolset, that also adds its own "system tables" to the database,
> so we also have a track for a specific database. The whole thing is
> available for public download on http://www.abaris.se/abaperls/.
>
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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