Apexsql Source Control Download
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Once the Source control setup wizard is initiated, In the System selection tab, choose the Git source control system from the drop-down list, and click the Next button:
After the connection was successfully tested, click the Finish button in the bottom-right corner to complete the Source control setup wizard and to load source control settings in ApexSQL Script:
The local file system repository is intended for single users as a solution for the application testing and evaluation purposes. The advantages of a local repository are easy setup and fast local data transfer since it bypasses the source control server. However, it is not recommended as a long-term solution because it is difficult to share it with other team members and setup a proper security for the repository.
The goal of database source control is to propagate changes from a development environment, to test and production without issues and to fulfill the need to restore a database at any point in time, maintaining an audit trail, and to allow successful team collaboration during the project.
These systems include Team Foundation Server, Subversion, Perforce, etc. In a centralized version control system all the versioned files are contained in a single central server and all clients that access the VCS check out files from the central server.
The advantage of a centralized version control system is that everyone on the project can see what everyone else is doing. Also it is easier to an administrator to control and administer a centralized version control systems.
In a distributed version control system such as Git, Mercurial, Plastic SCM, Bazaar, etc. the clients clone the repository and every clone represents a full backup of the repository. If any server crashes any of the cloned repositories can be used to restore it.
Subversion is an open source centralized VCS and one the most popular version control systems as it offers easy to understand concepts. SVN is a step up from previous concurrent version systems. Developed as a project of the Apache Software Foundation, SVN is a part of a rich community of developers and users.
Team Foundation Version Control is a centralized version control system and can be used from small to large projects. Team Foundation Server is also a full Application Lifecycle Management suite which differentiate it from other source control systems, e.g. SVN which is a strictly source control system. TFS also allows applying granular permissions and restricted access down to a file level.
Git is the rising star of version control systems developed by Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds. Git is a fast and efficient open -source distributed version control system, so many major open-source projects are using Git to power their repositories. Considered as technically the most powerful source control tool Git is harder to use for a beginner than, for example, SVN. For a more detailed comparison of Git vs SVN refer to the following article.
Mercurial is also an open-source distributed version control system. Designed for larger projects, Mercurial is very fast, as its creators consider performance as the Mercurial most important feature.
In case of a centralized version control system such as Subversion, Team Foundation Server, etc. a single central repository is hosted on a server and a working copy of the files (the working folder) is placed on the local system. Each user stores in their working folder a copy of part or all files stored in a central repository.
After setting up a repository, and in case of a central version control system a working folder, we will explain, in the next article in this series, how to setup source control in a development environment using SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio and by using ApexSQL Source Control.
This message will be shown when the Link a database to source control command is used from the right-click context menu in the Object Explorer pane for a database that has already been linked to source control in a Dedicated development model:
Use Visual studio database edition to script out your database. Works like a charm and you can use any Source control system, of course best if it has VS plugins. This tool has also a number of other useful features. Check them out here in this great blog post
I have to say I think a visual studio database project is also a reasonable solution to the source control dilemma. If it's set up correctly you can run the scripts against the database from the IDE. If your script is old, get the latest, run it against the DB. Have a script that recreates all the objects as well if you need, new objects must be added to the this script as well by hand, but only once
Rolling your own from scratch would not be very doable, but if you use a sql comparison tool like Redgate SQL Compare SDK to generate your change files for you it would not take very long to half-roll what you want and then just check those files into source control. I rolled something similar for myself to update changes from our development systems to our live systems in just a few hours.
In our environment, we never change the DB manually: all changes are done by scripts at release time, and the scripts are kept in the version control system. One important part of this procedure is to be sure that all scripts can be run again against the same DB the scripts are idempotent?) without loss of data. For example, if you add a column, make sure that you do nothing if the column is already there.
Your comment about "suggestions have the flaw that they require the dev to follow some procedure" is really a tell-tale. It's not a flaw, it's a feature. Version control helps developers in following procedures and makes the procedures less painful. If you don't want to follow procedures, you don't need version control.
In one project I arranged by careful attention in the design that all the important data in the database can be automatically recreated from external places. At startup the application creates the database if it is missing, and populates it from external data sources, using a schema in the application source code (and hence versioned with the application). The database store name (a sqlite filename although most database managers allow multiple databases) includes a schema version, and we increase the schema version whenever we commit a schema change. This means when we restart the application to a new version with a different schema that a new database store is automatically created and populated. Should we have to revert a deployment to an old schema then the new run of the old version will be using the old database store, so we get to do fast downgrades in the event of trouble.
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It offers SQL version and source control directly from SSMS, supports dedicated and shared database development models, works with the most popular source control systems and integrates with ApexSQL Diff, ApexSQL Build, and ApexSQL Script.
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