I call this declarative schema management, since the repo declares the desired state, and the tooling knows how to reach this state. This concept is finally catching on lately, although some huge companies have already been doing it this way for quite some time. Facebook is a key example; they've managed their schema changes in a pure-SQL declarative fashion, company-wide, for nearly a decade.
I'm developing a suite of tools [1] to provide declarative schema management and "schema change by pull request" functionality, initially targeting MySQL and MariaDB. A few large companies have built pipelines using one of my tools -- including Twilio SendGrid, who wrote about their process in-depth recently [2].
I'm developing a suite of tools [1] to provide declarative schema management and "schema change by pull request" functionality, initially targeting MySQL and MariaDB. A few large companies have built pipelines using one of my tools -- including Twilio SendGrid, who wrote about their process in-depth recently [2].
[1] https://skeema.io
[2] https://sendgrid.com/blog/schema-management-with-skeema/