I got some good responses when I asked a similar question on SO a long time ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6371/how-do-you-manage-databases-in-develop

I got some good responses when I asked a similar question on SO a long time ago: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6371/how-do-you-manage-databases-in-development-test-and-production http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6371/how-do-you-manage-da... Bottom line: script all your changes to the DB schema, and check the scripts into version control. If you need mock data, write a script that loads it into the DB, and check that into version control.