I have just downloaded and started reading a free PDF book about version control systems (VCS), entitled Version Control by Example, written by Eric Sink. So far I have read a really informative chapter about the advantages of third generation VCS, such as Git, over the second generation ones, such as Subversion and TFS. So far it is a very nice ...

This seems to be the survey season. Andy’s post on source controlling T-SQL code triggered a question that I always wanted to ask.   Do you version control the source code for your various personal projects (i.e. not projects of your customer or employer)? Do you use a computer at home for your source control repository, or do you use a ...

CodingHorror has a blogpost titled Get Your Database Under Version Control It is suggested that you also keep the data in version control. I am reading through the comments and I am amazed. One person writes ''Once you have used ActiveRecord Migrations it is very hard to go back!'' This might work for a small or medium size database. My database ...