Moving from Development to Testing

  • We have a development database from which we want to move some of the object to a test server prior to moving them to the production box. What is the best way to make sure that we get all of the related objects? I know which tables I want to move but there are procs that use views and functions and other procs and I don't want to miss anything. Are there any tools/tricks/scripts that can help me?

  • sysdepends is a system table to look up.

    Once find out all the objects, use dts to copy.

  • If you always drop/create instead of alter, then you can use sysobjects.crdate to find changes. RedGAte and others have tools to give you a list of differences in objects between the systems. But mostly you need a good system to track things. I wrote about how I handle this:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/vcspart2.asp

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