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Agree with pepr - store the SQL dump for your database, not the actual database. &nbsp;Git is not the desired platform for data which changes as frequently as database tables do.
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Agree with pepr - store the SQL dump for your database, not the actual database.  Git is not the desired platform for data which changes as frequently as database tables do.

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Which database system/file are we talking about? Even a CSV or INI file can be a database ...<br />
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/gustav
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Which database system/file are we talking about? Even a CSV or INI file can be a database ...

/gustav

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Thank you for insights; I think the method will be to generate a create.sql (for creating a new db) file and various development delta.sql files. Thank you for the help!
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Thank you for insights; I think the method will be to generate a create.sql (for creating a new db) file and various development delta.sql files. Thank you for the help!

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You can make daily clones of DB and call them snapshots, then pull schema deltas if really needed....
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You can make daily clones of DB and call them snapshots, then pull schema deltas if really needed....

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Greetings,<br />
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we have a dev database which I would like to make available to developers, some of whom may be remote. Is storing in GIT a good idea?
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Greetings,

we have a dev database which I would like to make available to developers, some of whom may be remote. Is storing in GIT a good idea?

GIT and storing DBs

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