DBMProject

Automate deployment of database changes

.NET Core Console Application

Database migrations

Database migration scripts are a way to automatically deploy changes to the database. A migration script is a set of commands that will take the target database from state A to state B. The scripts generally come in two flavors:

• Schema changes or DDL (data definition language)

• Seeding scripts or DML (data modification language)

In most cases when we do a deployment of a new code package to an environment we would first apply DDL scripts to ensure that the schema is of the correct version and then run the DML scripts to seed new data or modify existing data. In order to enable automated deployment we need a tool that can automate this process. At a high level the tool would work as follows:

Inputs:

root folder of where the migration scripts are located. Using the root folder you can form the following two paths: ${root_folder}/ddl ${root_folder)/dml

connection string of the target database

Algorithm:

obtain an inventory of all scripts in the source folder and cache in an appropriate data structure compare the inventory to the list of already executed scripts. These are generally stored in a target database in a "versions" table. This would be a new table and at a minimum it would need the script name and execution time stamp Create a list of all scripts that have not yet been executed in the target database Sort the scripts that they are executed in an appropriate order. The ordering is determined using execution order and must follow the rule that DDL scripts should be executed first - naming convention (something to be defined). A good example naming convention would be the following: "[ticket_name][execution order][description].sql". Examples: MCRTECH_10101_udpate.sql, MCRTECH-10101.sql. Define a convention to skip a script from automatic execution: XMCRTECH-1111.sql. If the script does not comply with the naming convention then sort it alphabetically after complying scripts in each group (DDL/DML) Each script may contain multiple "batches" separated by "GO" statements (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/sql-server-utilities-statements-go?view=sql-server-2017) Since "go" is not actually an sql statement it cannot be executed as sql. It is a directive that this block of sql should be executed separately. So break the script by batch and executed each one separately If the execution of all batches in a script is successful then write a record to the "Versions" table If execution of any batch fails halt any further processing and output an error with the details (STDERR)

Outputs:

listing of scripts that will be applied to the target database in order outputted to STDOUT messages from script execution (to STDOUT if successful or STDERR if failed) database record of each script execution if successful - overall status of the batch to STDOUT or STERROR (if all successful the sucess else failure)

Instruction

Download or Clone this Repo to local, switch to DBMProgram directory which contians DBMProgram.csproj

For example,

cd DBMProject\DBMProgram

donet run

Cmd Usage

-r, --root      Required. Input file to read.

-c, --conn      Required. Connection String to SQL Server

-d, --dbname    Not Required. Specific name of Database that contains Version table

-s, --snapshot    Do you want to recover your data?

-v, --sub         Subtitute Variable

-u, --ui	Running Graphical User Interface

Cmd Example

dotnet run -r C:\\Users\\szhou\\Desktop\\script --conn "Data source=US-NY-8W1RQ32;Initial Catalog=Version_test;Integrated Security=True;"

dotnet run -r C:\\Users\\szhou\\Desktop\\script --conn "Data source=US-NY-8W1RQ32;Integrated Security=True;" --dbname Version_test

dotnet run -r C:\\Users\\szhou\\Desktop\\script --conn "Data source=US-NY-8W1RQ32;Integrated Security=True;" --dbname Version_test --snapshot

dotnet run -r C:\\Users\\szhou\\Desktop\\script --conn "Data source=US-NY-8W1RQ32;Integrated Security=True;" --sub var1:Version_test var2:test2  --dbname Version_test --snapshot

Substitute Variable

--sub var1:val1 var2:val2

In the script you would look for all instances of $var1$ and $var2$ and substitute with val1 and val2.

Version Table Sample Schema

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[versions](
	
	[id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	
	[script_name] [varchar](50) NULL,
	
	[applied_date] [datetime] NULL
) 
ON [PRIMARY]