Comments on: Agile Database Deployment Using Phing

By: Complete PHP Development Environment on OSX – Step 2: Phing

Complete PHP Development Environment on OSX – Step 2: Phing — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:14:58 +0000

[...] has a beautiful task called DbDeploy, that will facilitate the implementation of changes to our DB model when installing a new version [...]

By: Lucas Vasconcelos

Lucas Vasconcelos — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:13:44 +0000

Hey, nice article. But I’ve a question: Your example shows just one change… up/{create,alter}/foo.table.sql

but if you’d more than 2 changes and these changes must be executed at at the same order how do you deal with this?

At my job we have a central database with a few metadata tables where we place all the changes. So, a build task catch all the changes since the last release and put on just one update_db.sql file. That we use to upgrade the live databases of our customers.

What you think about this approach?

By: Mark Rochefort

Mark Rochefort — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:44 +0000

Federico – I’ve just dropped you an email – glad to have found your blog :)

By: New Wiki and SVN Repository

New Wiki and SVN Repository — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:29:07 +0000

[...] 1, 2008 Well, whether you have or haven’t been keeping up with my personal blog, I have created a Wiki to document some of the projects that I’m [...]

By: Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:43:30 +0000

You don’t do so bad yourself Federico, looking forward to getting my hands on Zend_Object ;)

By: federico

federico — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:48:49 +0000

Dave, I’ve been following your blog lately, your posts are very interesting (and inspiring as well). I look forward to reading more about this, thanks.

By: Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:16:58 +0000

We currently have 5 developers working on the same codebase, we communicate the old fashioned way before commiting new delta files, that way they stay sequential, although a simple pre-commit hook could stop people commiting files with the wrong number.

The real challenge comes when branching your codebase, when I’ve got that running smoothly enough, I’ll write about a slightly improved method of deploying database changes.