Re: Best way to synchronize two database schemas

[Alexander Kolesen]

One of the ways is to keep db scema under revision control system. And
update it every N minutes.

% crontab -l
0 * * * * mysqldump testdb --no-data > testdb_schema.sql && svn ci -m
"db schema: `date`" > /dev/null

> I have a two databases, one in a production environment (let's call it db_prod) and
> the other in a testing environments (Let's call it db_test).
>
> What is the best way to synchronize the database schemas?  db_test has had a few
> indexes and constraints added to several tables and I need to generate a MySQL script to
> apply these changes to db_prod.  So basically I want to dump the schemas of the two
> database, compare, and generate the necessary script to apply to db_prod.
>
> Thanks,
> Randall Price
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