Wordpress - Solution for database version control and deployment?

Here are two possible solutions, both of these are actually generic MySQL version control tools but can be adapted to your workflow:

dbv.php

This tool creates "migrations", which are basically SQL scripts, from the changes detected on the database. These scripts are stored in a local directory and thus can be commited to your current VCS (git, for example).

It's used through a PHP web interface.

DBVC

Fundamentally similar to the previous tool, this is based on a command line interface. It's configured through a json file. The main difference is that it doesn't auto-generate the migration files.

There's a pending issue to integrate this with the previous similar, so that's something to look for.

Wordpress Plugins

Some plugins that could aid in the creation of a repeatable workflow:

• VersionPress (still in early development at this date)
• WP Migrate DB (there is a pro version)
• WP Synch DB (a fork of the previous project with some of the pro features included)

I'm doing this on MYSQL.

It puts all the tables schema and data into their own file so I can easily see what has changed.

Unlike most of the other solutions in this thread this solution gets the data, which is important for a CMS.

This solution doesn't use any tools, just a command line script.

edit: I found my older code had a bug where import order was important. taking off the --compact flag fixes the bug.

for x in `mysql --skip-column-names -u root -ppassword dbname -e 'show tables;'`; do
     echo exporting $x
     mysqldump -u root -ppassword --skip-add-drop-table --skip-add-locks --skip-disable-keys --skip-set-charset --extended-insert=FALSE --replace --skip-dump-date dbname $x > "./db/$x.sql"
done

Older code

for x in `mysql --skip-column-names -u root -ppassword dbname -e 'show tables;'`; do
     mysqldump -u root -ppassword --compact --extended-insert=FALSE --replace dbname $x > "./db/$x.sql"
done

and here is how to import

for x in `ls ./db/*.sql`; do
     echo importing $x
     mysql -pdbpassword dbname --force < $x
done