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title: "RikMigrations: Good start on the road to .NET DB Management DSLs?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/25/rikmigrations-good-start-on-the-road-to-net-db-management-ds.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/25/rikmigrations-good-start-on-the-road-to-net-db-management-ds.html"
published: "2007-11-25T14:19:00"
updated: "2007-11-25T14:19:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a library I think could be useful for database management tasks in .NET: RikMigrations . It's based on the idea of Ruby On Rails MIgrations which, since I don't know ruby, is only something I know of from other…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# RikMigrations: Good start on the road to .NET DB Management DSLs?

By Roy Osherove November 25, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published November 25, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Here's a library I think could be useful for database management tasks in .NET: [RikMigrations](http://www.rikware.com/page/RikMigrations-Tutorial.aspx). It's based on the idea of [Ruby On Rails MIgrations](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/UnderstandingMigrations) which, since I don't know ruby, is only something I know of from other people.

> "RikMigrations is a database migration library for .NET based on the migrations facility provided by Ruby on Rails. It allows simple upgrading and downgrading of databases using .NET code (such as VB or C#) either from the command line or built into your application. Unlike many other migration frameworks, RikMigrations is a stand-alone library which does not rely on a large surrounding framework."

Things still missing from this? no view or Stored procedure support yet. I hope there will be soon.

\[via [vidmar](http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2007/11/25/links-of-the-week-12-week-472007.aspx)\]

[Here are a couple of code samples](http://www.rikware.com/page/RikMigrations-Tutorial.aspx) on how to implement DB Migrations in .NET and RikMigrations.

I can see myself building full DSLs for my DBs based on this framework, including versioning and setup\\teardown dor full deployments\\system tests.


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