Horton vs DbUp

Horton

Horton is the simple database migration utility. (by jdaigle)

DbUp is a .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases. It tracks which SQL scripts have been run already, and runs the change scripts that are needed to get your database up to date. (by DbUp)

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dbup.github.io

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Horton		DbUp
	Project
1	Mentions	10
18	Stars	2,089
-	Growth	0.6%
10.0	Activity	8.5
over 6 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Horton

Posts with mentions or reviews of Horton. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-23.

Best db migration tool options to use along with Entity Framework
5 projects | /r/dotnet | 23 Feb 2022

I also wrote my own tool a decade ago, https://github.com/jdaigle/Horton, but I just use Flyway these days.

DbUp

Posts with mentions or reviews of DbUp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.

How to Handle MSSQL Database in CI/CD?
2 projects | /r/csharp | 26 Jan 2023

3 projects | /r/devops | 26 Jan 2023
create table in SqlDataProvider
1 project | /r/fsharp | 23 Dec 2022

I am not super familiar with SqlDataProvider, but its generally purpose is to interact with the DB at runtime, and not to migrate sql databases. I would probably use some ddl migration tool like DbUp, https://github.com/DbUp/DbUp, to handle table creation.
Dev ,production best way to migrate migrations
1 project | /r/dotnet | 2 Sep 2022
How do you do CI/CD with ef core
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 Jun 2022
Best db migration tool options to use along with Entity Framework
5 projects | /r/dotnet | 23 Feb 2022

I've used a simple migration tool called DbUp https://github.com/DbUp/DbUp
Is it sensible to run EF migrations at startup?
5 projects | /r/dotnet | 24 Nov 2021
Have to use SQL Server 2005 to pull data into a web application
1 project | /r/csharp | 25 Sep 2021

Yea - it usually takes some diligence to maintain sprocs in a nice way. When my teams have used dapper in a production environment/application we usually combine it with something like dbup which lets us source control all of the objects/up/down scripts. It's like EF migrations but works with simple scripts.
Automate Manual SQL runs
1 project | /r/devops | 6 Feb 2021

Check out DbUp This is what we use and created a custom app that gets invoked within our pipeline

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Horton and DbUp you can also consider the following projects:

roundhouse - RoundhousE is a Database Migration Utility for .NET using sql files and versioning based on source control

FluentMigrator - Fluent migrations framework for .NET

yuniql - Free and open source schema versioning and database migration made natively with .NET/6. NEW THIS MAY 2022! v1.3.15 released!

Entity Framework - EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.

Evolve - Database migration tool for .NET and .NET Core projects. Inspired by Flyway.

Unfold - Powershell-based deployment solution for .net web applications

Octo Pack - Creates Octopus-compatible NuGet packages

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

EfCore.TestSupport - Tools for helping in unit testing applications that use Entity Framework Core

Flyway - Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

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