How to synchronize development and production database

Question

Do you know any applications to synchronize two databases - during development sometimes it\'s required to add one or two table rows or new table or column. Usually I write

Answer 1

If you write your SQL statements for your development database (which are, I imagine, series of DDL instructions such as CREATE, ALTER and DROP), why don't you keep track of them by recording them in a table, with a "version" index? You will then be able to:

1. track your version changes
2. make a small routine allowing the "automatic" update of your production database by sending the recorded instructions to the database.