Pull, Push, Fetch - It’s Just Backup and Restore Over a Network
So far, everything we’ve done has been local. Your repository lives on your machine, your branches are on your machine, your commits are on your machine. That’s fine for solo work, but the real power…
Stash Is Just a Temp Table for Your Changes
You’re halfway through modifying a stored procedure when your phone rings. Production is down. You need to switch to main and fix something immediately. But you can’t switch branches with uncommitted changes - or if…
Rebase Is ALTER TABLE on Your Commit History
Rebase is where most DBA git tutorials hit a wall. The explanations get abstract. Diagrams appear with arrows pointing in confusing directions. People start arguing about when to use it. Here’s the DBA translation: rebase…
Tags Are Database Snapshots You Can Name
Branches move. Every time you commit to a branch, it advances. That’s the point - branches are living, growing things. But sometimes you need to mark an exact point in time and know it will…
Cherry-Pick Is Cross-Database INSERT…SELECT
Sometimes you don’t want to merge an entire branch. You want one specific commit from another branch - one fix, one change, one feature - without bringing everything else along for the ride. DBAs do…
Git for SSDT Projects: Where It All Comes Together
This is the post where everything clicks. Over the last eight posts, we’ve mapped git concepts to database analogies: repositories as databases, branches as database copies, merging as synchronization, tags as snapshots. You’ve got the…