http://blog.jooq.org/2014/06/25/flyway-and-jooq-for-unbeatable-sql-development-productivity/ Ruby tool to support Database versioning, look like this can work independence from Ruby on Rails - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Ruby+Rails+Migrations&btnG=Search An example coding with this tool - http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/05/27/activerecord-migrations-without-rails/ http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/UnderstandingMigrations Links about Database versioning: http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cgi-bin/cmwiki/view/CM/CMandDatabases Eclipse plugin - http://dbcopy.sourceforge.net/en/dbcopy/index.html but I cannot get it working, instead, http://dbcopyplugin.sourceforge.net/ work a lot better. However it is better to install using installation jars (and source) of SQuirreL, otherwise there may be version not map issue. Another new tool, migrate4j - http://karussell.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/simple-database-migration-in-java/ Comments of difference approach of DB deployment - https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/database-deployment-challenges/