Yep, and another is that version control support of databases is still a bit limited. (There are some solutions, at least redgate is doing something for SQL ser

Yep, and another is that version control support of databases is still a bit limited. (There are some solutions, at least redgate is doing something for SQL server on this.) I have a workflow where I recreate all views and procedures in the beginning of the query batch from text files and that gives some ways to version control my views, but as you say, it is clumsy.