The only good method I've seen so far is to source control the DDL scripts (maybe DML deployment as well).

As soon as you allow GUI changes, things easily get out...

Honestly I'd be surprised that you'd actually go back more than a few days from disk. Beyond that you'd likely be looking at tape. Also, if you are dependent on...

Pradeep has good ideas, but this is rather complicated. You might want to hire someone to help you get this going.

You have two needs. Synchronizing databases, which requires some level...

Do you mean when you run a query from SSMS? Remember that SQL Server is a server, it doesn't typically interact with a client desktop.

You need a client program to...

Good to hear! look for the robot in future strips.

That's one of the things I've been concerned about, as I agree with Jeff on Barry's posts.

I wouldn't mind seeing some "voting" to help people decide what is good, but...

No idea, what's wrong there. Usually it's an embedded HTML code, but I don't see on there. Definitely something weird.

Phenomenal, cosmic powers....itty, bitty living space.

Wow, I have some agreement! I was expecting a nice skewering this morning.

The 80% I was thinking about isn't the working/not working, but rather functionality as a few people pointed...

Different companies block different sites. I'd rather they didn't block them, but if they get too many requests from some PC, go talk to the owner. Treat people like adults,...

The other problem with warnings is that if you see them too much, you just click and stop paying attention.

I don't believe there are scripts anymore, just the downloads from Codeplex.

There are just mdf/ldfs to attach after you unzip them. I'd read the comments for the installer. It seems...

If you mean that you want to add a column, this will work. It will give you an auto-incrementing column for all new rows. However it does not change...

It's interesting to see the responses, and thanks for them.

There's a huge gap between "don't use the cloud" and "put all our systems in the cloud". selective deployment is, IMHO,...

The START command in DOS, and I forget what in *Nix will spawn processes.

One thing I'd do is break my prod pool into 3 groups.

1. One is a "pilot"...