My need is fairly basic and I don’t want to rebuild the wheel. I like to script my database and have written scripts to update it from one version to the next ie 001-create-tables.sql, 002-alter-column.sql etc.
What I want is a simple tool command line or MsBuild that will look at a database see what version the database is at (using some table convention) and run all of the scripts in a folder that have a higher number than the current database version. I would also like the tool to roll back a script if it fails/throws an error and stop at that point.
That is what I would like but I don’t mind changing my conventions though I do want to write my own sql scripts. I also want the tool to be free or open source as I don’t need too much.
As my projects are C# I would prefer the tool be built in .Net
OK so I didn’t like any of the options that I found out there. I found some good tools to create the scripts but nothing that would track the version in the database and run the new scripts. Anyway I went ahead and rolled my own Open Source tool to get the job done. If you want to use it you can download if from CodePlex its called KissDB. I also threw up a blog post about it at my blog blog.RunXc