Do you use source control for your database items? [closed]

The databases themselves? No

The scripts that create them, including static data inserts, stored procedures and the like; of course. They're text files, they are included in the project and are checked in and out like everything else.

Of course in an ideal world your database management tool would do this; but you just have to be disciplined about it.

I absolutely love Rails ActiveRecord migrations. It abstracts the DML to ruby script which can then be easily version'd in your source repository.

However, with a bit of work, you could do the same thing. Any DDL changes (ALTER TABLE, etc.) can be stored in text files. Keep a numbering system (or a date stamp) for the file names, and apply them in sequence.

Rails also has a 'version' table in the DB that keeps track of the last applied migration. You can do the same easily.

Check out LiquiBase for managing database changes using source control.

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 

I'm sure there is a better way to do this, but it's worked for me so far.

Yes. Code is code. My rule of thumb is that I need to be able to build and deploy the application from scratch, without looking at a development or production machine.

The best practice I have seen is creating a build script to scrap and rebuild your database on a staging server. Each iteration was given a folder for database changes, all changes were scripted with "Drop... Create" 's . This way you can rollback to an earlier version at any time by pointing the build to folder you want to version to.

I believe this was done with NaNt/CruiseControl.

YES, I think it is important to version your database. Not the data, but the schema for certain.

In Ruby On Rails, this is handled by the framework with "migrations". Any time you alter the db, you make a script that applies the changes and check it into source control.

My shop liked that idea so much that we added the functionality to our Java-based build using shell scripts and Ant. We integrated the process into our deployment routine. It would be fairly easy to write scripts to do the same thing in other frameworks that don't support DB versioning out-of-the-box.

The new Database projects in Visual Studio provide source control and change scripts.

They have a nice tool that compares databases and can generate a script that converts the schema of one into the other, or updates the data in one to match the other.

The db schema is "shredded" to create many, many small .sql files, one per DDL command that describes the DB.

+tom

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I have been using it as a developer for the past year and really like it. It makes it easy to compare my dev work to production and generate a script to use for the release. I don't know if it is missing features that DBAs need for "enterprise-type" projects.

Because the schema is "shredded" into sql files the source control works fine.

One gotcha is that you need to have a different mindset when you use a db project. The tool has a "db project" in VS, which is just the sql, plus an automatically generated local database which has the schema and some other admin data -- but none of your application data, plus your local dev db that you use for app data dev work. You rarely are aware of the automatically generated db, but you have to know its there so you can leave it alone :). This special db is clearly recognizable because it has a Guid in its name,

The VS DB Project does a nice job of integrating db changes that other team members have made into your local project/associated db. but you need to take the extra step to compare the project schema with your local dev db schema and apply the mods. It makes sense, but it seems awkward at first.

DB Projects are a very powerful tool. They not only generate scripts but can apply them immediately. Be sure not to destroy your production db with it. ;)

I really like the VS DB projects and I expect to use this tool for all my db projects going forward.

+tom

Requiring the development teams to use an SQL database source control management system isn’t the magic bullet which will prevent issues from happening. On its own, database source control introduces additional overhead as the developers are required to save the changes they’ve made to an object in a separate SQL script, open the source control system client, check in the SQL script file using the client and then apply the changes to the live database.

I can suggest using the SSMS add-in called ApexSQL Source Control. It allows developers to easily map database objects with the source control system via the wizard directly from SSMS. The add-in includes support for TFS, Git, Subversion and other SC systems. It also includes support for source controlling Static data.

After downloading and installing ApexSQL Source Control, simply right-click the database you want to version control and navigate to ApexSQL Source Control sub-menu in SSMS. Click the Link database to source control option, select the source control system and the development model. After that you’ll need to provide the log-in information and the repository string for the source control system you’ve chosen.

You can read this article for more information: http://solutioncenter.apexsql.com/sql-source-control-reduce-database-development-time/

I do by saving create/update scripts and a script that generates sampledata.

Yes, we do it by keeping our SQL as part of our build -- we keep DROP.sql, CREATE.sql, USERS.sql, VALUES.sql and version control these, so we can revert back to any tagged version.

We also have ant tasks which can recreate the db whenever needed.

Plus, the SQL is then tagged along with your source code that goes with it.

The most successful scheme I've ever used on a project has combined backups and differential SQL files. Basically we would take a backup of our db after every release and do an SQL dump so that we could create a blank schema from scratch if we needed to as well. Then anytime you needed to make a change to the DB you would add an alter scrip to the sql directory under version control. We would always prefix a sequence number or date to the file name so the first change would be something like 01_add_created_on_column.sql, and the next script would be 02_added_customers_index. Our CI machine would check for these and run them sequentially on a fresh copy of the db that had been restored from the backup.

We also had some scripts in place that devs could use to re-initialize their local db to the current version with a single command.

We do source control all our dabase created objects. And just to keep developers honest (because you can create objects without them being in Source Control), our dbas periodically look for anything not in source control and if they find anything, they drop it without asking if it is ok.

I use SchemaBank to version control all my database schema changes:

• from day 1, I import my db schema dump into it
• i started to change my schema design using a web browser (because they are SaaS / cloud-based)
• when i want to update my db server, i generate the change (SQL) script from it and apply to the db. In Schemabank, they mandate me to commit my work as a version before I can generate an update script. I like this kind of practice so that I can always trace back when I need to.

Our team rule is NEVER touch the db server directly without storing the design work first. But it happens, somebody might be tempted to break the rule, in sake of convenient. We would import the schema dump again into schemabank and let it do the diff and bash someone if a discrepancy is found. Although we could generate the alter scripts from it to make our db and schema design in sync, we just hate that.

By the way, they also let us create branches within the version control tree so that I can maintain one for staging and one for production. And one for coding sandbox.

A pretty neat web-based schema design tool with version control n change management.

I have everything necessary to recreate my DB from bare metal, minus the data itself. I'm sure there are lots of ways to do it, but all my scripts and such are stored off in subversion and we can rebuild the DB structure and such by pulling all that out of subversion and running an installer.

I typically build an SQL script for every change I make, and another to revert those changes, and keep those scripts under version control.

Then we have a means to create a new up-to-date database on demand, and can easily move between revisions. Every time we do a release, we lump the scripts together (takes a bit of manual work, but it's rarely actually hard) so we also have a set of scripts that can convert between versions.

Yes, before you say it, this is very similar to the stuff Rails and others do, but it seems to work pretty well, so I have no problems admitting that I shamelessly lifted the idea :)

I use SQL CREATE scripts exported from MySQL Workbech, then using theirs "Export SQL ALTER" functionality I end up with a series of create scripts(numbered of course) and the alter scripts that can apply the changes between them.

3.- Export SQL ALTER script Normally you would have to write the ALTER TABLE statements by hand now, reflecting your changes you made to the model. But you can be smart and let Workbench do the hard work for you. Simply select File -> Export -> Forward Engineer SQL ALTER Script… from the main menu.

This will prompt you to specify the SQL CREATE file the current model should be compared to.

Select the SQL CREATE script from step 1. The tool will then generate the ALTER TABLE script for you and you can execute this script against your database to bring it up to date.

You can do this using the MySQL Query Browser or the mysql client.Voila! Your model and database have now been synchronized!

Source: MySQL Workbench Community Edition: Guide to Schema Synchronization

All this scripts of course are inside under version control.

Yes, always. You should be able to recreate your production database structure with a useful set of sample data whenever needed. If you don't, over time minor changes to keep things running get forgotten then one day you get bitten, big time. Its insurance that you might not think you need but the day you do it it worth the price 10 times over!

There has been a lot of discussion about the database model itself, but we also keep the required data in .SQL files.

For example, in order to be useful your application might need this in the install:

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

We would have a file called currency.sql under subversion. As a manual step in the build process, we compare the previous currency.sql to the latest one and write an upgrade script.

We version and source control everything surrounding our databases:

• DDL (create and alters)
• DML (reference data, codes, etc.)
• Data Model changes (using ERwin or ER/Studio)
• Database configuration changes (permissions, security objects, general config changes)

We do all this with automated jobs using Change Manager and some custom scripts. We have Change Manager monitoring these changes and notifying when they are done.

I believe that every DB should be under source control, and developers should have an easy way to create their local database from scratch. Inspired by Visual Studio for Database Professionals, I've created an open-source tool that scripts MS SQL databases, and provides and easy way of deploying them to your local DB engine. Try http://dbsourcetools.codeplex.com/ . Have fun, - Nathan.

I source control the database schema by scripting out all objects (table definitions, indexes, stored procedures, etc.). But, as for the data itself, simply rely on regular backups. This ensures that all structural changes are captured with proper revision history, but doesn't burden the database each time data changes.

At our business we use database change scripts. When a script is run, it's name is stored in the database and won't run again, unless that row is removed. Scripts are named based on date, time and code branch, so controlled execution is possible.

Lots and lots of testing is done before the scripts are run in the live environment, so "oopsies" only happen, generally speaking, on development databases.

We're in the process of moving all the databases to source control. We're using sqlcompare to script out the database (a profession edition feature, unfortunately) and putting that result into SVN.

The success of your implementation will depend a lot on the culture and practices of your organization. People here believe in creating a database per application. There is a common set of databases that are used by most applications as well causing a lot of interdatabase dependencies (some of them are circular). Putting the database schemas into source control has been notoriously difficult because of the interdatabase dependencies that our systems have.

Best of luck to you, the sooner you try it out the sooner you'll have your issues sorted out.

I have used the dbdeploy tool from ThoughtWorks at http://dbdeploy.com/. It encourages the use of migration scripts. Each release, we consolidated the change scripts into a single file to ease understanding and to allow DBAs to 'bless' the changes.

This has always been a big annoyance for me too - it seems like it is just way too easy to make a quick change to your development database, save it (forgetting to save a change script), and then you're stuck. You could undo what you just did and redo it to create the change script, or write it from scratch if you want of course too, though that's a lot of time spent writing scripts.

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.

An excellent tool. Here is the link: http://www.sqldelta.com/

RedGate is great, we generate new snapshots when database changes are made (a tiny binary file) and keep that file in the projects as a resource. Whenever we need to update the database, we use RedGate's toolkit to update the database, as well as being able to create new databases from empty ones.

RedGate also makes Data snapshots, while I haven't personally worked with them, they are just as robust.

FYI This was also brought up a few days ago by Dana ... Stored procedures/DB schema in source control

Here is a sample poor man's solution for a trigger implementing tracking of changes on db objects ( via DDL stateements ) on a sql server 2005 / 2008 database. I contains also a simple sample of how-to enforce the usage of required someValue xml tag in the source code for each sql command ran on the database + the tracking of the current db version and type ( dev , test , qa , fb , prod) One could extend it with additional required attributes such as , etc. The code is rather long - it creates the empty database + the needed tracking table structure + required db functions and the populating trigger all running under a [ga] schema.

USE [master] GO /****** Object: Database [DBGA_DEV] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:22:01 ******/ CREATE DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] ON PRIMARY ( NAME = N'DBGA_DEV', FILENAME = N'D:\GENAPP\DATA\DBFILES\DBGA_DEV.mdf' , SIZE = 3072KB , MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024KB ) LOG ON ( NAME = N'DBGA_DEV_log', FILENAME = N'D:\GENAPP\DATA\DBFILES\DBGA_DEV_log.ldf' , SIZE = 6208KB , MAXSIZE = 2048GB , FILEGROWTH = 10%) GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 100 GO IF (1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled')) begin EXEC [DBGA_DEV].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'enable' end GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ARITHABORT OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT GLOBAL GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET DISABLE_BROKER GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET HONOR_BROKER_PRIORITY OFF GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET READ_WRITE GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET RECOVERY FULL GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET MULTI_USER GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM GO ALTER DATABASE [DBGA_DEV] SET DB_CHAINING OFF GO EXEC [DBGA_DEV].sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'DbType', @value=N'DEV' GO EXEC [DBGA_DEV].sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'DbVersion', @value=N'0.0.1.20090414.1100' GO USE [DBGA_DEV] GO /****** Object: Schema [ga] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:29 ******/ CREATE SCHEMA [ga] AUTHORIZATION [dbo] GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'Contains the objects of the Generic Application database' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga' GO /****** Object: Table [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog]( [LogId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [TimeStamp] [timestamp] NOT NULL, [DatabaseName] [varchar](256) NOT NULL, [SchemaName] [varchar](256) NOT NULL, [DbVersion] [varchar](20) NOT NULL, [DbType] [varchar](20) NOT NULL, [EventType] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [ObjectName] [varchar](256) NOT NULL, [ObjectType] [varchar](25) NOT NULL, [Version] [varchar](50) NULL, [SqlCommand] [varchar](max) NOT NULL, [EventDate] [datetime] NOT NULL, [LoginName] [varchar](256) NOT NULL, [FirstName] [varchar](256) NULL, [LastName] [varchar](50) NULL, [ChangeDescription] [varchar](1000) NULL, [Description] [varchar](1000) NULL, [ObjVersion] [varchar](20) NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'The database version as written in the extended prop of the database' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'DbVersion' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'dev , test , qa , fb or prod' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'DbType' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'The name of the object as it is registered in the sys.objects ' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'ObjectName' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'Description' GO SET IDENTITY_INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ON INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ([LogId], [DatabaseName], [SchemaName], [DbVersion], [DbType], [EventType], [ObjectName], [ObjectType], [Version], [SqlCommand], [EventDate], [LoginName], [FirstName], [LastName], [ChangeDescription], [Description], [ObjVersion]) VALUES (3, N'DBGA_DEV', N'en', N'0.0.1.20090414.1100', N'DEV', N'DROP_TABLE', N'tb_BL_Products', N'TABLE', N' some', N'<EVENT_INSTANCE><EventType>DROP_TABLE</EventType><PostTime>2009-04-22T11:03:11.880</PostTime><SPID>57</SPID><ServerName>YSG</ServerName><LoginName>ysg\yordgeor</LoginName><UserName>dbo</UserName><DatabaseName>DBGA_DEV</DatabaseName><SchemaName>en</SchemaName><ObjectName>tb_BL_Products</ObjectName><ObjectType>TABLE</ObjectType><TSQLCommand><SetOptions ANSI_NULLS="ON" ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT="ON" ANSI_PADDING="ON" QUOTED_IDENTIFIER="ON" ENCRYPTED="FALSE"/><CommandText>drop TABLE [en].[tb_BL_Products] --<Version> some</Version>&#x0D; </CommandText></TSQLCommand></EVENT_INSTANCE>', CAST(0x00009BF300B6271C AS DateTime), N'ysg\yordgeor', N'Yordan', N'Georgiev', NULL, NULL, N'0.0.0') INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ([LogId], [DatabaseName], [SchemaName], [DbVersion], [DbType], [EventType], [ObjectName], [ObjectType], [Version], [SqlCommand], [EventDate], [LoginName], [FirstName], [LastName], [ChangeDescription], [Description], [ObjVersion]) VALUES (4, N'DBGA_DEV', N'en', N'0.0.1.20090414.1100', N'DEV', N'CREATE_TABLE', N'tb_BL_Products', N'TABLE', N' 2.2.2 ', N'<EVENT_INSTANCE><EventType>CREATE_TABLE</EventType><PostTime>2009-04-22T11:03:18.620</PostTime><SPID>57</SPID><ServerName>YSG</ServerName><LoginName>ysg\yordgeor</LoginName><UserName>dbo</UserName><DatabaseName>DBGA_DEV</DatabaseName><SchemaName>en</SchemaName><ObjectName>tb_BL_Products</ObjectName><ObjectType>TABLE</ObjectType><TSQLCommand><SetOptions ANSI_NULLS="ON" ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT="ON" ANSI_PADDING="ON" QUOTED_IDENTIFIER="ON" ENCRYPTED="FALSE"/><CommandText>CREATE TABLE [en].[tb_BL_Products](&#x0D; [ProducId] [int] NULL,&#x0D; [ProductName] [nchar](10) NULL,&#x0D; [ProductDescription] [varchar](5000) NULL&#x0D; ) ON [PRIMARY]&#x0D; /*&#x0D; <Version> 2.2.2 </Version>&#x0D; &#x0D; */&#x0D; </CommandText></TSQLCommand></EVENT_INSTANCE>', CAST(0x00009BF300B62F07 AS DateTime), N'ysg\yordgeor', N'Yordan', N'Georgiev', NULL, NULL, N'0.0.0') INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ([LogId], [DatabaseName], [SchemaName], [DbVersion], [DbType], [EventType], [ObjectName], [ObjectType], [Version], [SqlCommand], [EventDate], [LoginName], [FirstName], [LastName], [ChangeDescription], [Description], [ObjVersion]) VALUES (5, N'DBGA_DEV', N'en', N'0.0.1.20090414.1100', N'DEV', N'DROP_TABLE', N'tb_BL_Products', N'TABLE', N' 2.2.2 ', N'<EVENT_INSTANCE><EventType>DROP_TABLE</EventType><PostTime>2009-04-22T11:25:12.620</PostTime><SPID>57</SPID><ServerName>YSG</ServerName><LoginName>ysg\yordgeor</LoginName><UserName>dbo</UserName><DatabaseName>DBGA_DEV</DatabaseName><SchemaName>en</SchemaName><ObjectName>tb_BL_Products</ObjectName><ObjectType>TABLE</ObjectType><TSQLCommand><SetOptions ANSI_NULLS="ON" ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT="ON" ANSI_PADDING="ON" QUOTED_IDENTIFIER="ON" ENCRYPTED="FALSE"/><CommandText>drop TABLE [en].[tb_BL_Products] &#x0D; </CommandText></TSQLCommand></EVENT_INSTANCE>', CAST(0x00009BF300BC32F1 AS DateTime), N'ysg\yordgeor', N'Yordan', N'Georgiev', NULL, NULL, N'0.0.0') INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ([LogId], [DatabaseName], [SchemaName], [DbVersion], [DbType], [EventType], [ObjectName], [ObjectType], [Version], [SqlCommand], [EventDate], [LoginName], [FirstName], [LastName], [ChangeDescription], [Description], [ObjVersion]) VALUES (6, N'DBGA_DEV', N'en', N'0.0.1.20090414.1100', N'DEV', N'CREATE_TABLE', N'tb_BL_Products', N'TABLE', N' 2.2.2 ', N'<EVENT_INSTANCE><EventType>CREATE_TABLE</EventType><PostTime>2009-04-22T11:25:19.053</PostTime><SPID>57</SPID><ServerName>YSG</ServerName><LoginName>ysg\yordgeor</LoginName><UserName>dbo</UserName><DatabaseName>DBGA_DEV</DatabaseName><SchemaName>en</SchemaName><ObjectName>tb_BL_Products</ObjectName><ObjectType>TABLE</ObjectType><TSQLCommand><SetOptions ANSI_NULLS="ON" ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT="ON" ANSI_PADDING="ON" QUOTED_IDENTIFIER="ON" ENCRYPTED="FALSE"/><CommandText>CREATE TABLE [en].[tb_BL_Products](&#x0D; [ProducId] [int] NULL,&#x0D; [ProductName] [nchar](10) NULL,&#x0D; [ProductDescription] [varchar](5000) NULL&#x0D; ) ON [PRIMARY]&#x0D; /*&#x0D; <Version> 2.2.2 </Version>&#x0D; &#x0D; */&#x0D; </CommandText></TSQLCommand></EVENT_INSTANCE>', CAST(0x00009BF300BC3A69 AS DateTime), N'ysg\yordgeor', N'Yordan', N'Georgiev', NULL, NULL, N'0.0.0') SET IDENTITY_INSERT [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] OFF /****** Object: Table [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers]( [LoginsForUsersId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [LoginName] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL, [FirstName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL, [SecondName] [varchar](100) NULL, [LastName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL, [DomainName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO SET IDENTITY_INSERT [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] ON INSERT [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] ([LoginsForUsersId], [LoginName], [FirstName], [SecondName], [LastName], [DomainName]) VALUES (1, N'ysg\yordgeor', N'Yordan', N'Stanchev', N'Georgiev', N'yordgeor') SET IDENTITY_INSERT [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] OFF /****** Object: Table [en].[tb_BL_Products] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [en].[tb_BL_Products]( [ProducId] [int] NULL, [ProductName] [nchar](10) NULL, [ProductDescription] [varchar](5000) NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO /****** Object: StoredProcedure [ga].[procUtils_SqlCheatSheet] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:37 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE PROCEDURE [ga].[procUtils_SqlCheatSheet] as set nocount on --what was the name of the table with something like role /* SELECT * from sys.tables where [name] like '%POC%' */ -- what are the columns of this table /* select column_name , DATA_TYPE , CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, table_name from Information_schema.columns where table_name='tbGui_ExecutePOC' */ -- find proc --what was the name of procedure with something like role /* select * from sys.procedures where [name] like '%ext%' exec sp_HelpText procName */ /* exec sp_helpText procUtils_InsertGenerator */ --how to list all databases in sql server /* SELECT database_id AS ID, NULL AS ParentID, name AS Text FROM sys.databases ORDER BY [name] */ --HOW-TO LIST ALL TABLES IN A SQL SERVER 2005 DATABASE /* SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM [POC].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE' AND TABLE_NAME <> 'dtproperties' ORDER BY TABLE_NAME */ --HOW-TO ENABLE XP_CMDSHELL START ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- configure verbose mode temporarily -- EXECUTE sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 -- RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE --GO --ENABLE xp_cmdshell -- EXECUTE sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', '1' -- RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE -- EXEC SP_CONFIGURE 'show advanced option', '1'; -- SHOW THE CONFIGURATION -- EXEC SP_CONFIGURE; --turn show advance options off -- GO --EXECUTE sp_configure 'show advanced options', 0 -- RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE -- GO --HOW-TO ENABLE XP_CMDSHELL END ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --HOW-TO IMPLEMENT SLEEP -- sleep for 10 seconds -- WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:10' SELECT * FROM My_Table /* LIST ALL PRIMARY KEYS SELECT INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS.TABLE_NAME AS TABLE_NAME, INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE.COLUMN_NAME AS COLUMN_NAME, REPLACE(INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS.CONSTRAINT_TYPE,' ', '_') AS CONSTRAINT_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE ON INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS.CONSTRAINT_NAME = INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE.CONSTRAINT_NAME WHERE INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS.TABLE_NAME <> N'sysdiagrams' ORDER BY INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS.TABLE_NAME ASC */ --HOW-TO COPY TABLE AND THE WHOLE TABLE DATA , COPY TABLE FROM DB TO DB --==================================================START /* use Poc_Dev go drop table tbGui_LinksVisibility use POc_test go select * INTO [POC_Dev].[ga].[tbGui_LinksVisibility] from [POC_TEST].[ga].[tbGui_LinksVisibility] */ --HOW-TO COPY TABLE AND THE WHOLE TABLE DATA , COPY TABLE FROM DB TO DB --====================================================END --=================================================== SEE TABLE METADATA START /* SELECT c.name AS [COLUMN_NAME], sc.data_type AS [DATA_TYPE], [value] AS [DESCRIPTION] , c.max_length as [MAX_LENGTH] , c.is_nullable AS [OPTIONAL] , c.is_identity AS [IS_PRIMARY_KEY] FROM sys.extended_properties AS ep INNER JOIN sys.tables AS t ON ep.major_id = t.object_id INNER JOIN sys.columns AS c ON ep.major_id = c.object_id AND ep.minor_id = c.column_id INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS sc ON t.name = sc.table_name and c.name = sc.column_name WHERE class = 1 and t.name = 'tbGui_ExecutePOC' ORDER BY SC.DATA_TYPE */ --=================================================== SEE TABLE METADATA END /* select * from Information_schema.columns select table_name , column_name from Information_schema.columns where table_name='tbGui_Wizards' */ --=================================================== LIST ALL TABLES AND THEIR DESCRIPTOINS START /* SELECT T.name AS TableName, CAST(Props.value AS varchar(1000)) AS TableDescription FROM sys.tables AS T LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT class, class_desc, major_id, minor_id, name, value FROM sys.extended_properties WHERE (minor_id = 0) AND (class = 1)) AS Props ON T.object_id = Props.major_id WHERE (T.type = 'U') AND (T.name <> N'sysdiagrams') ORDER BY TableName */ --=================================================== LIST ALL TABLES AND THEIR DESCRIPTOINS START --=================================================== LIST ALL OBJECTS FROM DB START /* use DB --HOW-TO LIST ALL PROCEDURE IN A DATABASE select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 'P' --HOW-TO LIST ALL TRIGGERS BY NAME IN A DATABASE select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 'TR' --HOW-TO LIST TABLES IN A DATABASE select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 'U' --how-to list all system tables in a database select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 's' --how-to list all the views in a database select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 'v' */ /* Similarly you can find out other objects created by user, simple change type = C = CHECK constraint D = Default or DEFAULT constraint F = FOREIGN KEY constraint L = Log FN = Scalar function IF = In-lined table-function P = Stored procedure PK = PRIMARY KEY constraint (type is K) RF = Replication filter stored procedure S = System table TF = Table function TR = Trigger U = User table ( this is the one I discussed above in the example) UQ = UNIQUE constraint (type is K) V = View X = Extended stored procedure */ --=================================================== HOW-TO SEE ALL MY PERMISSIONS START /* SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions(NULL, 'SERVER'); USE poc_qa; SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions (NULL, 'database'); GO */ --=================================================== HOW-TO SEE ALL MY PERMISSIONS END /* --find table use poc_dev go select s.name from sysobjects s where type = 'u' and s.name like '%Visibility%' select * from tbGui_LinksVisibility */ /* find cursor use poc go DECLARE @procName varchar(100) DECLARE @cursorProcNames CURSOR SET @cursorProcNames = CURSOR FOR select name from sys.procedures where modify_date > '2009-02-05 13:12:15.273' order by modify_date desc OPEN @cursorProcNames FETCH NEXT FROM @cursorProcNames INTO @procName WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN set nocount off; exec sp_HelpText @procName --- or print them -- print @procName FETCH NEXT FROM @cursorProcNames INTO @procName END CLOSE @cursorProcNames select @@error */ /* -- SEE STORED PROCEDURE EXT PROPS SELECT ep.name as 'EXT_PROP_NAME' , SP.NAME , [value] as 'DESCRIPTION' FROM sys.extended_properties as ep left join sys.procedures as sp on sp.object_id = ep.major_id where sp.type='P' -- what the hell I ve been doing lately on sql server 2005 / 2008 select o.name , (SELECT [definition] AS [text()] FROM sys.all_sql_modules where sys.all_sql_modules.object_id=a.object_id FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE) AS Statement_Text , a.object_id, o.modify_date from sys.all_sql_modules a left join sys.objects o on a.object_id=o.object_id order by 4 desc -- GET THE RIGHT LANG SCHEMA START DECLARE @template AS varchar(max) SET @template = 'SELECT * FROM {object_name}' DECLARE @object_name AS sysname SELECT @object_name = QUOTENAME(s.name) + '.' + QUOTENAME(o.name) FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.object_id = OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(@LANG) + '.[TestingLanguagesInNameSpacesDelMe]') IF @object_name IS NOT NULL BEGIN DECLARE @sql AS varchar(max) SET @sql = REPLACE(@template, '{object_name}', @object_name) EXEC (@sql) END -- GET THE RIGHT LANG SCHEMA END -- SEE STORED PROCEDURE EXT PROPS end*/ set nocount off GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'AuthorName', @value=N'Yordan Georgiev' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'PROCEDURE',@level1name=N'procUtils_SqlCheatSheet' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'ProcDescription', @value=N'TODO:ADD HERE DESCRPIPTION' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'PROCEDURE',@level1name=N'procUtils_SqlCheatSheet' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'ProcVersion', @value=N'0.1.0.20090406.1317' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'PROCEDURE',@level1name=N'procUtils_SqlCheatSheet' GO /****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [ga].[GetDbVersion] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:42 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE FUNCTION [ga].[GetDbVersion]() RETURNS VARCHAR(20) BEGIN RETURN convert(varchar(20) , (select value from sys.extended_properties where name='DbVersion' and class_desc='DATABASE') ) END GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'AuthorName', @value=N'Yordan Georgiev' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'FUNCTION',@level1name=N'GetDbVersion' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'ChangeDescription', @value=N'Initial creation' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'FUNCTION',@level1name=N'GetDbVersion' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'CreatedWhen', @value=N'getDate()' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'FUNCTION',@level1name=N'GetDbVersion' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'Description', @value=N'Gets the current version of the database ' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'ga', @level1type=N'FUNCTION',@level1name=N'GetDbVersion' GO /****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [ga].[GetDbType] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:42 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE FUNCTION [ga].[GetDbType]() RETURNS VARCHAR(30) BEGIN RETURN convert(varchar(30) , (select value from sys.extended_properties where name='DbType' and class_desc='DATABASE') ) END GO /****** Object: Default [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_DbVersion] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ ALTER TABLE [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ADD CONSTRAINT [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_DbVersion] DEFAULT ('select ga.GetDbVersion()') FOR [DbVersion] GO /****** Object: Default [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_EventDate] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ ALTER TABLE [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ADD CONSTRAINT [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_EventDate] DEFAULT (getdate()) FOR [EventDate] GO /****** Object: Default [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_ObjVersion] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:40 ******/ ALTER TABLE [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ADD CONSTRAINT [DF_tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog_ObjVersion] DEFAULT ('0.0.0') FOR [ObjVersion] GO /****** Object: DdlTrigger [trigMetaDoc_TraceDbChanges] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:29 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO create trigger [trigMetaDoc_TraceDbChanges] on database for create_procedure, alter_procedure, drop_procedure, create_table, alter_table, drop_table, create_function, alter_function, drop_function , create_trigger , alter_trigger , drop_trigger as set nocount on declare @data xml set @data = EVENTDATA() declare @DbVersion varchar(20) set @DbVersion =(select ga.GetDbVersion()) declare @DbType varchar(20) set @DbType =(select ga.GetDbType()) declare @DbName varchar(256) set @DbName [email protected]('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/DatabaseName)[1]', 'varchar(256)') declare @EventType varchar(256) set @EventType [email protected]('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/EventType)[1]', 'varchar(50)') declare @ObjectName varchar(256) set @ObjectName = @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/ObjectName)[1]', 'varchar(256)') declare @ObjectType varchar(25) set @ObjectType = @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/ObjectType)[1]', 'varchar(25)') declare @TSQLCommand varchar(max) set @TSQLCommand = @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand)[1]', 'varchar(max)') declare @opentag varchar(4) set @opentag= '&lt;' declare @closetag varchar(4) set @closetag= '&gt;' declare @newDataTxt varchar(max) set @newDataTxt= cast(@data as varchar(max)) set @newDataTxt = REPLACE ( REPLACE(@newDataTxt , @opentag , '<') , @closetag , '>') -- print @newDataTxt declare @newDataXml xml set @newDataXml = CONVERT ( xml , @newDataTxt) declare @Version varchar(50) set @Version = @newDataXml.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/CommandText/Version)[1]', 'varchar(50)') -- if we are dropping take the version from the existing object if ( SUBSTRING(@EventType , 0 , 5)) = 'DROP' set @Version =( select top 1 [Version] from ga.tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog where ObjectName=@ObjectName order by [LogId] desc) declare @LoginName varchar(256) set @LoginName = @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/LoginName)[1]', 'varchar(256)') declare @FirstName varchar(50) set @FirstName= (select [FirstName] from [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] where [LoginName] = @LoginName) declare @LastName varchar(50) set @LastName = (select [LastName] from [ga].[tb_BLSec_LoginsForUsers] where [LoginName] = @LoginName) declare @SchemaName sysname set @SchemaName = @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/SchemaName)[1]', 'sysname'); --declare @Description xml --set @Description = @data.query('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/text())') --print 'VERSION IS ' + @Version --print @newDataTxt --print cast(@data as varchar(max)) -- select column_name from information_schema.columns where table_name ='tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog' insert into [ga].[tb_DataMeta_ObjChangeLog] ( [DatabaseName] , [SchemaName], [DbVersion] , [DbType], [EventType], [ObjectName], [ObjectType] , [Version], [SqlCommand] , [LoginName] , [FirstName], [LastName] ) values( @DbName, @SchemaName, @DbVersion, @DbType, @EventType, @ObjectName, @ObjectType , @Version, @newDataTxt, @LoginName , @FirstName , @LastName ) GO SET ANSI_NULLS OFF GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO DISABLE TRIGGER [trigMetaDoc_TraceDbChanges] ON DATABASE GO /****** Object: DdlTrigger [trigMetaDoc_TraceDbChanges] Script Date: 04/22/2009 13:21:29 ******/ Enable Trigger [trigMetaDoc_TraceDbChanges] ON Database GO