Best Way to track changes in Strored procedures sql2k5

  • Hi ,

    i will be grateful if somebody will suggest me how to know when and what was changed in a specific stored precedure/view/function in sqlserver 2005.

  • You mean in the DDL of these objects ?

    check database triggers !

    e.g. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/DDL+Triggers/64536/

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  • faheemahmad14 (9/5/2010)


    i will be grateful if somebody will suggest me how to know when and what was changed in a specific stored precedure/view/function in sqlserver 2005.

    Check the web for version control software. There are some fairly good products for free.

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  • Place your stored procedures, indeed, your entire database, into source control. Subversion is a great opensource product. Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS) is fantastic as well. There are a number of reasons why you should do this, but one of the most important you've already outlined. You'll know what changed when in your stored procedures (and tables, and indexes, and...).

    The only trick is, you need to also develop a process whereby you deploy from source control. There are a number of ways to do this, including Visual Studio database projects, Red Gate's SQL Source Control, and others. Find the one that works best in your environment.

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