关于数据库模型本身有很多讨论，但是我们也将所需的数据保存在. sql文件中。

例如，为了让你的应用程序更有用，你可能需要在安装时这样做:

INSERT INTO Currency (CurrencyCode, CurrencyName) 
VALUES ('AUD', 'Australian Dollars');

INSERT INTO Currency (CurrencyCode, CurrencyName) 
VALUES ('USD', 'US Dollars');

我们会有一个名为currency的文件。subversion下的SQL。作为构建过程中的一个手动步骤，我们将比较以前的货币。SQL到最新版本，并编写升级脚本。

You should never just log in and start entering "ALTER TABLE" commands to change a production database. The project I'm on has database on every customer site, and so every change to the database is made in two places, a dump file that is used to create a new database on a new customer site, and an update file that is run on every update which checks your current database version number against the highest number in the file, and updates your database in place. So for instance, the last couple of updates:

if [ $VERSION \< '8.0.108' ] ; then
  psql -U cosuser $dbName << EOF8.0.108
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    --
    -- Remove foreign key that shouldn't have been there.
    -- PCR:35665
    --
    ALTER TABLE     migratorjobitems
    DROP CONSTRAINT migratorjobitems_destcmaid_fkey;
    -- 
    -- Increment the version
    UPDATE          sys_info
    SET             value = '8.0.108'
    WHERE           key = 'DB VERSION';
    END TRANSACTION;
EOF8.0.108
fi

if [ $VERSION \< '8.0.109' ] ; then
  psql -U cosuser $dbName << EOF8.0.109
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    --
    -- I missed a couple of cases when I changed the legacy playlist
    -- from reporting showplaylistidnum to playlistidnum
    --
    ALTER TABLE     featureidrequestkdcs
    DROP CONSTRAINT featureidrequestkdcs_cosfeatureid_fkey;
    ALTER TABLE     featureidrequestkdcs
    ADD CONSTRAINT  featureidrequestkdcs_cosfeatureid_fkey
    FOREIGN KEY     (cosfeatureid)
    REFERENCES      playlist(playlistidnum)
    ON DELETE       CASCADE;
    --
    ALTER TABLE     ticket_system_ids
    DROP CONSTRAINT ticket_system_ids_showplaylistidnum_fkey;
    ALTER TABLE     ticket_system_ids
    RENAME          showplaylistidnum
    TO              playlistidnum;
    ALTER TABLE     ticket_system_ids
    ADD CONSTRAINT  ticket_system_ids_playlistidnum_fkey
    FOREIGN KEY     (playlistidnum)
    REFERENCES      playlist(playlistidnum)
    ON DELETE       CASCADE;
    -- 
    -- Increment the version
    UPDATE          sys_info
    SET             value = '8.0.109'
    WHERE           key = 'DB VERSION';
    END TRANSACTION;
EOF8.0.109
fi

我相信有更好的方法来做到这一点，但到目前为止，它对我来说是有效的。

“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。”

是的……我们的数据库是在ERwin中设计的，每个版本的ddl是自动生成的。ERwin文件保存在我们的源代码控制系统中(实际上，我们的工程文档也是如此)。

Kira的主要用例之一是通过显式地将数据库外部的模式指定为代码来进行数据库升级。然后，它可以管理数据库，并将其从任何版本升级到任何版本。

我已经使用RedGate SQL Compare Pro与脚本文件夹进行模式同步，然后我将所有更新提交给版本控制。效果很好。