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Coding Horror: Get Your Database Under Version Control (codinghorror.com)
14 points by iamelgringo on Feb 4, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I have this problem. However I am using Java, and I work for an organization that is split into DB and Dev teams. We interact a lot - it's not like there's some huge dividing line. But the developers adapt to changes in the database - we don't push objects out to the database. So maybe we've set ourselves up for this problem.

This brings up a new question,though - is version control for a database another palliative for a broken system? In other words, if you have to version the database along with the code, have you already made a mistake?

In my case, there's no avoiding this "mistake", so I will definitely be discussing this idea with the DB team, for sure.


I use Django. I don't have this problem.




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