How to merge Drupal database changes

Question

We currently use an SVN repository to ensure everyone\'s local environments are kept up-to-date. However, Drupal website development is somewhat trickier in that any custom

Answer 1

By committing patches of database dumps, do you mean taking an entire extract of the db and committing it after each change?

How about a master copy of the database? Extract all tables, views, sps, etc... into individual files, put them into svn and do your merge edits on the individual objects?