How should you build your database from source control?

Question

There has been some discussion on the SO community wiki about whether database objects should be version controlled. However, I haven\'t seen much discussion about t

Answer 1

I treat the SQL as source-code when possible

If I can write it in standard's compliant SQL then it generally goes in a file in my source control. The file will define as much as possible such as SPs, Table CREATE statements.

I also include dummy data for testing in source control:

1. proj/sql/setup_db.sql
2. proj/sql/dummy_data.sql
3. proj/sql/mssql_specific.sql
4. proj/sql/mysql_specific.sql

And then I abstract out all my SQL queries so that I can build the entire project for MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL or anything else.

Build and test automation uses these build-scripts as they are as important as the app source and tests everything from integrity through triggers, procedures and logging.