Before We Start  Questions – ask, but we may have to hold until end 

Rob “FerventCoder” Reynolds  C# MVP  Technical Lead for Heartland Crop Insurance  Active in OSS  Chuck Norris Framework  NuGet core team member  Various contributions to other projects  ferventcoder – twitter, gmail, you name it  ferventcoder.com / Devlicio.us  Recently given a new nickname: Inspector Gadget

Past/Present  Worked w/ a database of some sort  How do you get changes?  Does it get any easier?

Why do we need migrations?  Things invariably will change  Very few systems require no changes over the years

Different Environments 1. Local (Developers) 2. Test (Testers) 3. Staging (Users/Proxies) 4. Production (Users)

Let’s talk about Pain  How do you apply a database change one time?  How do you keep all environments in sync?  Databases change – updates with new/changed tables, views, stored procedures, etc  Databases store data  Deleting data is bad. Don’t be a bad monkey!

What is RoundhousE?  And why is kicking my database a good thing?  It’s easy to use  Make your auditors smile  Version your database  It’s environment aware  And that’s not even the cool stuff yet.

What does it work with?  SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/Express  Oracle  Access  MySQL (just added, still dark)  Soon:  PostgreSQL  SQLite

ChuckNorris  Suite of tools to help make developers more productive by scaffolding frameworks, etc  RoundhousE makes db migrations easy  rrisframework

Easy to use  One required parameter (/d) for database  Folder format  Comes with samples  Documentation is solid

Make Your Auditors Smile  Audit logging – who did exactly what when?  Auditing changes by capturing all scripts and logs each time

Version Your Database  – version?  “What version is your database on?”

Environment Awareness  Scripts meant for an environment will only run in that environment  Default is “LOCAL”

Conventions / Customizable  The cool stuff  Don’t like RoundhousE as the schema? Change it  Don’t like the “up” folder? Change it  Don’t like xxxxx? Change it

Integrate into development  Also the cool stuff

How do I get RoundhousE?  gem install roundhouse  cinst roundhouse  nuget install roundhouse (for your local project)  Source (git / svn) – projectroundhouse.org  Old fashioned download – projectroundhouse.org

Asking questions  Documentation  wiki  Chuck Norris Framework  ramework  #roundhouse_db

Questions?

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