Running SQL install scripts can be tedious. They get so far, and then fail. Finding out where they failed isn’t always easy and when the problem is fixed, there is a choice – drop the schema and re-run, or comment out what has been applied already, and re-run. I once spent an entire morning in this fix/re-run cycle for a particularly large and badly maintained script. It was very ungratifying work. What I need, I thought, are some friendly green ticks, some positive visual feedback to aid job satisfaction.
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