我相信每个DB都应该在源代码控制下，开发人员应该有一种简单的方法从头创建他们的本地数据库。受Visual Studio for Database Professionals的启发，我创建了一个开源工具，脚本MS SQL数据库，并提供了一种简单的方法将它们部署到您的本地DB引擎。试试http://dbsourcetools.codeplex.com/。玩得开心, -内森。

RedGate很棒，当数据库发生变化时，我们会生成新的快照(一个小的二进制文件)，并将该文件作为资源保存在项目中。每当我们需要更新数据库时，我们使用RedGate的工具包来更新数据库，并且能够从空数据库创建新的数据库。

RedGate也制作数据快照，虽然我个人没有使用过，但它们同样强大。

必须阅读将数据库置于版本控制之下。查看K. Scott Allen的系列帖子。

When it comes to version control, the database is often a second or even third-class citizen. From what I've seen, teams that would never think of writing code without version control in a million years-- and rightly so-- can somehow be completely oblivious to the need for version control around the critical databases their applications rely on. I don't know how you can call yourself a software engineer and maintain a straight face when your database isn't under exactly the same rigorous level of source control as the rest of your code. Don't let this happen to you. Get your database under version control.

“简短版本:将您的生产数据库转储到git存储库中，以实现即时备份解决方案。”

我所见过的最佳实践是创建一个构建脚本，在登台服务器上废弃并重新构建数据库。每次迭代都有一个用于数据库更改的文件夹，所有更改都用“Drop…创建“”。这样，您可以通过将构建指向您想要版本的文件夹，随时回滚到较早的版本。

我相信这是用NaNt/CruiseControl完成的。

这对我来说也一直是一个很大的烦恼——似乎对开发数据库进行快速更改，保存它(忘记保存更改脚本)太容易了，然后你就卡在那里了。您可以撤消刚才所做的并重新做它以创建更改脚本，当然，如果您愿意的话，也可以从头开始编写它，尽管这将花费大量的时间来编写脚本。

A tool that I have used in the past that has helped with this some is SQL Delta. It will show you the differences between two databases (SQL server/Oracle I believe) and generate all the change scripts necessary to migrate A->B. Another nice thing it does is show all the differences between database content between the production (or test) DB and your development DB. Since more and more apps store configuration and state that is crucial to their execution in database tables, it can be a real pain to have change scripts that remove, add, and alter the proper rows. SQL Delta shows the rows in the database just like they would look in a Diff tool - changed, added, deleted.

一个很好的工具。以下是链接: http://www.sqldelta.com/