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Simon Galbraith
An automated solution for migrating database structures
11 April 2003

Migrating database changes from the development database to the testing, staging, and live databases poses plenty of challenges. Learn why using an automated tool is the best way to deal with these challenges.

Managing the design and creation of database objects such as tables, stored procedures, and views is a fact of life for database developers. Because applications grow and change continually, additions and changes to database structures (or schemas) are a constant part of the development process.

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