Richard Davey wrote: > Hi all, > > I know a lot of you use various means for PHP source control (CVS, SVN, > etc), which is all well and fine, but how do you manage source control > on your databases? > > Say you've got an upgrade to a site, all of the new PHP files are > controlled by SVN, so you can rollback at any time, but say the upgrade > includes several key modifications to a MySQL table and perhaps the > changing of some core data. > > How (if at all?!) do you handle the versioning of the database and data > itself, so you can keep both PHP and SQL structure in sync? lets forget that updating SQL schemas on massive DBs will likely take so much time that you will have to plan in downtime on the systems involved ... that's clearly out of the scope of this question. my strategy is also pretty weak in this regard but generally: I write my code in such a way that older code can run with newer db schemas, which basically means I add stuff but never remove it (tables, fields, etc) ... schema updates are always 'expansive'. If I'm feeling very tidy I'll create a seperate CVS module for the schema and updates/rollbacks. this involves writing sql files that update for each version of the project I have/will rollout ... and also sql files that perform the reverse/rollback actions between project versions. (when I'm being tidy I always do DB schema update when the major version number of a project changes) I end up with files named something like: v1-to-v2.sql v2-to-v3.sql v2-to-v1.sql v3-to-v2.sql then I include a script which I can call with the desired version number and it works out which sql files it needs to run and in which order (the current version is either stored in the DB or stored in a txt file outside of CVS) ... I have considered making this 'change version' script also automatically perform the required 'cvs up -r Foo' command on the actual project files but I have not got round to ever actually do it (time, money, inspiration, lackof) - maybe that brainfart inspires somewhat, then again maybe you'll pass out fom the smell :-) > > Cheers, > > Rich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
