Tag Archives: version control

Great Developers Use Source Control

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

I was rewatching Ike Ellis (b|t) talk on the habits of Great SQL Developers from SQL in the City 2018, and his first item was “Use Source Control“. I happen to agree with Ike, which is why I’m writing this, and I … Continue reading →

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The Control Poll

Posted on September 8, 2017 by

This editorial was originally published on May 17, 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is out of the office. I was reading about version control systems (VCS) recently, brushing up on some skills, and saw this quote in a thread: “There … Continue reading →

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Bringing DevOps to the Database

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

Abstract: DevOps is a hot topic in today’s software development world. However most of the knowledge and experience with DevOps is based around application software and ignores the database. We will examine how the concepts and principles of DevOps can … Continue reading →

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Ignoring Database Version Control

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

I find myself surprised that so many people resist keeping their code in version control. I think this is less people all the time, but I don’t have good percentages because at this point I think a fair number of … Continue reading →

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The Complexity of Branches

Posted on May 19, 2016 by

Branching code is hard.  Well, branching isn’t hard. Just right click in some GUI or or type “git branch” and off you go. The actual branching of code is pretty simple and painless. In some sense, branching might be too … Continue reading →

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KDiff3

Posted on April 18, 2016 by

As I write more code, especially database code, and I collaborate with others (or myself), I find that I have the need to merge code more and more. It’s inevitable, and since I work across a couple machines, I even … Continue reading →

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Should Production Databases Be in a VCS?

Posted on February 16, 2016 by

There was a great discussion recently on my true version of code editorial. It was interesting to see how some people viewed the idea of a version control system as the source of code, while others truly see the production SQL … Continue reading →

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What is the True Version of Code?

Posted on February 1, 2016 by

As I’ve been working on more development tasks, I regularly hear from developers that a version control system (VCS) is the “true” version of our code. We should always look to a VCS for the actual code that we need … Continue reading →

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Git Pull in SQL Source Control

Posted on November 12, 2015 by

I wrote recently on Git Push in SQL Source Control (SOC), and now wanted to add the other side of the story, pull. This process is even simpler. I’ll be working with a new database, one that has two client … Continue reading →

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What is the DLM Maturity Model?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

I’ve written a few posts on the Redgate Software blog to try and show how I see the DLM model, and how we see things at Redgate. We have a lot of developers that work in a similar way when … Continue reading →

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