Comments on: Is your database schema in sync? http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/is-your-database-schema-in-sync-2009-11-25/ Expert times and information on MySQL Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:45:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Log Buffer #171: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | The Pythian Blog http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/is-your-database-schema-in-sync-2009-11-25/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Log Buffer #171: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | The Pythian Blog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:05:11 +0000 http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=2270#comment-1120 [...] Bradford was into the general schema things: Is your database schema in sync? he wonders, and suggests a particular tool for putting yourself in the position to give the right [...] [...] Bradford was into the general schema things: Is your database schema in sync? he wonders, and suggests a particular tool for putting yourself in the position to give the right [...]

]]> By: Mark R http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/is-your-database-schema-in-sync-2009-11-25/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Mark R Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:18:18 +0000 http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=2270#comment-1103 This may be very interesting, I've been looking for something which does this properly for some time. We try hard (really hard) to keep the schema in sync, writing migrations and rollbacks for every change and keeping our many dev and testing environments in sync with our (few) production environments. In practice this doesn't always work (usually because of people failing to follow the process, rather than bugs in the process), and they eventually drift out of sync. Something which can easily bring it back could simplify things significantly. As far as renames are concerned, there should be some way I can attach metadata to a column/table to say "This used to be called:x" and it could pick it up and rename it. Maybe I can enhance it. This may be very interesting, I’ve been looking for something which does this properly for some time.

We try hard (really hard) to keep the schema in sync, writing migrations and rollbacks for every change and keeping our many dev and testing environments in sync with our (few) production environments.

In practice this doesn’t always work (usually because of people failing to follow the process, rather than bugs in the process), and they eventually drift out of sync. Something which can easily bring it back could simplify things significantly.

As far as renames are concerned, there should be some way I can attach metadata to a column/table to say “This used to be called:x” and it could pick it up and rename it. Maybe I can enhance it.

]]> By: Giuseppe Maxia http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/is-your-database-schema-in-sync-2009-11-25/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 Giuseppe Maxia Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:07 +0000 http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=2270#comment-1101 It's a cool program. Especially for the ones who love the command line as much as I do. However, at the moment it doesn't deal with partitioning yet. For that, the only one that I found that works across multiple operating systems and supports partitions is MySQL Workbench. Giuseppe It’s a cool program. Especially for the ones who love the command line as much as I do.
However, at the moment it doesn’t deal with partitioning yet. For that, the only one that I found that works across multiple operating systems and supports partitions is MySQL Workbench.

Giuseppe

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