http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/category/8.aspx Discusses the automation & evolutionary database development en-US NHibernate's Answers gnschenker@gmail.com Subtext Version 2.0.0.43 http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/08/07/database-migration.aspx <p>In my <a href="http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/08/04/manage-sql-databases.aspx">last post</a> I discussed the automated management of an SQL server database. In the post I used the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tarantino/">Tarantino</a> database migration tool. </p> <p><a href="http://www.flux88.com/">Ben Scheirman</a> recently has written an <a href="http://flux88.com/NETDatabaseMigrationToolRoundup.aspx">excellent post</a> about some other tools that are also available for doing the job.</p> <p>Where the <strong>Tarantino</strong> migration tool uses TSQL scripts to do the migrations most of the other tools define the DDL in C# or Ruby. </p> <p>For reference I put here the list of tools mentioned in Ben's post</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServer">Rails Migrations running on SQL Server</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.rikware.com/RikMigrations.html">RikMigrations</a> </li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/tarantino">Tarantino</a> </li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/migratordotnet">Migrator.NET</a> </li> <li><a href="http://blog.eleutian.com/2008/04/25/AFirstLookAtMachineMigrations.aspx">Machine Migrations</a><a href="http://flux88.com/ct.ashx?id=75aea5fd-9ec9-4b0b-aa8f-eea32882d608&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fblog.eleutian.com%2f2008%2f04%2f25%2fAFirstLookAtMachineMigrations.aspx"></a> </li> <li><a href="http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/10/03/subsonic-migrate-me">Subsonic Migrations</a> </li> <li><a href="http://dbdeploy.com/2007/09/25/dbdeploynet-v10-officially-released">dbDeploy.NET</a> </li> </ul> <p>Enjoy</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/images/blogs_hibernatingrhinos_com/nhibernate/WindowsLiveWriter/DatabaseMigration_6708/Blog%20Signature%20Gabriel_2.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="21" alt="Blog Signature Gabriel" src="http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/images/blogs_hibernatingrhinos_com/nhibernate/WindowsLiveWriter/DatabaseMigration_6708/Blog%20Signature%20Gabriel_thumb.png" width="244" border="0" /></a> .</p><img src="http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/aggbug/29.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> NHibernate's Answers http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/08/07/database-migration.aspx Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:19:44 GMT http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/comments/29.aspx http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/08/07/database-migration.aspx#feedback 143 http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/comments/commentRss/29.aspx