Hi everyone,
we have constructed a content management system that gets updated quite frequently and is used by many clients for their day to day opperations for their websites.
We have decided to build a section of the CMS with additional modules that we will host on our cloud and these applications may update quite frequently.
Because of this we have quite a number of individual databases created for each website that has been deployed onto our network.
As we will be adding new fields to the databases as enhancements come into effect periodically, i am concerned that this will delay us quite alot in installing the updates.
What i would like to know is...
Is there away to apply conditional logic in an SQL query for modifying the actual databases individually.
example.
we have a table called members.
We would like to add a series of fields to the database
username
companyname
wifesname
but as the table might be slightly different and may not contain these fields, and adding them will cause an error.
Is there an easy way to detect if a field exists and if not, simply create the required fields on the fly ?
we currently use MSSQL 2005 and Coldfusion, but i am more concerned about the SQL portion than anything else
thanks