On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:00 AM, French, Martin <frenchm@cromwell.co.uk> wrote:
> Having been a C/C++ developer many years before being a DBA, and having
> written ITIL software; How is migrating structure from a Development
> database to a test database whilst maintaining test data backwards?
It's not. doing by running diffs on ddl / schema is.
This is what the OP asked for:
"I need to be able to quickly apply the structure updates from a
development database to a testing database, and do selective data
updates (like on lookup tables, but not content tables)."
>
> Besides, the OP was asking how to diff to databases and create ddl, not
> asking for us to comment on why he's doing it. Personally, I'd rather
Re-read what he asked for. He did not ask how to run diffs of schema,
he asked how to update it with changes from a test database. The best
way to do this is to check in changes to the database and lookup
tables so the DBA can then apply them when needed to the various other
databases.
But hey, feel free to answer a question the OP didn't ask with an
answer he doesn't need.