How to add Stored Procedures to Version Control

Question

Our team just experienced for the first time the hassle of not having version control for our DB. How can we add stored procedures at the very least to version control? The cur

Answer 1

We just add the CREATE statement to source control in a .sql file, e.g.:

-- p_my_sp.sql
CREATE PROCEDURE p_my_sp
AS
    -- Procedure

Make sure that you only put one SP per file, and that the filename exactly matches the procedure name (it makes things so much easier to find the procedure in source control)

You then just need to be disciplined about not applying a stored procedure to your database that hasn't come from source control.

An alternative would be to save the SP as an ALTER statement instead - this has the advantage of making it easier to update an existing database, but means you need to do some tweaking to create a new empty database.