Recipes for Continuous Database Integration: Evolutionary Database Development

Recipe 1Continuously Integrating?

Problem: When you check out from the source control repository and compile your application, it doesn't compile or run as expected

When you're working on a team, any team member can change the code, and much of the code being changed depends on what other team members are doing. When others change the code you're depending on, integrating the code is always going to be a problem. Usually, you find these problems only when all the code is compiled and made to run as one unit. This phase is called integration. Typically, every team has a member, called the build master, who handles integration; however, manual integration is time consuming and error prone.

Solution

Continuously integrating your code with your team's ...