Question

My development team has been over-using the term “deploy”, and it seems to have lost its meaning.

What are short, clear, and concise terms to describe each of the following?

• Restoring a database from a baseline
• Executing developer scripts (including data updates, schema changes, etc)
• Doing both in a single batch file

I currently have several batch files that perform these functions, but they are all ambiguously called deploy.bat, and need better names that describe what they do.

Answer 1

I would go with:

1. DatabaseRestore
2. DatabaseUpdates
3. DatabaseInstall