Challenges of Version Control for Databases

Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• A brief history of Version Control Systems (blog post by Mehran Hajirajabi)
• Redgate Source Control for Oracle (and SQL Server)
• Flyway 
• Sqitch 
• Liquibase 
• pgAdmin Schema Diff 
• Migra 
• PostgresCompare 
• Schema based versioning and deployment (blog post by Valentine Gogichashvili)
• Change management tools and techniques (PostgreSQL Wiki)
• GitLab migration_helpers.rb 
• Database schema changes without downtime (blog post by James Coleman from Braintree/PayPal) 
• Zero-downtime Postgres schema migrations need lock_timeout and retries (blog post by Nikolay) 

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