Ask HN: What tool(s) do you use to code review and deploy SQL scripts?

• dbmate

  25 4,345 8.1 Go

  :rocket: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

A regular code repo with the scripts (with pull/merge requests for review) and then a CI job that builds containers with something like dbmate https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate that can then be run against any staging/prod environment.

• sqitch

  6 2,704 7.2 Perl

  Sensible database change management

  

We use https://sqitch.org/ and we’re fairly happy with it. Sqitch manages the files to deploy which are applied fits to a local database.

We use GitHub actions for deployment and database migrations are just one step of the pipeline. The step invokes sqitch deploy which runs all the pending migration files.

Then, all the approval process is standard for the environment. We require approvals in pull requests before merging to the main branch.

• WorkOS

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• bytebase

  36 10,029 10.0 Go

  The GitLab/GitHub for database DevOps. World's most advanced database DevOps and CI/CD for Developer, DBA and Platform Engineering teams.

  

We have been building https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase for 3+ years. You can think it of as GitHub/GitLab for SQL changes, with integrated GitOps, code review and deployment.

You can further check out this tutorial to get a feel of our GitOps solution

https://www.bytebase.com/docs/tutorials/database-change-mana...

• tern

  13 792 5.6 Go

  The SQL Fan's Migrator

We have a repo with migrations written in SQL, and we use tern[1] to apply them.

[1]: https://github.com/jackc/tern

• Flyway

  81 7,775 7.2 Java

  Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

  

Also RedGate, but Flyway has some reasons to recommend it over RedGate Deploy depending on your DBAs/workflows: https://flywaydb.org/

(Though I don't think it is "complete" or "perfect", either.)

EF Migrations are in a really good place now if you like/don't mind C# as a language (and you can easily embed SQL inside the C#, too, but there are benefits to being able to also run high level C# code). With today's tooling you can package your migration "runner application" as a single deployable executable for most platforms. You can build the executable once and run it in all your environments. (The same tool that updates your QA and Staging updates your Prod, testably running the same migrations.) Given the single executable deployable I might even consider using it for projects not themselves written in C#.

• InfluxDB

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