Database Archives

A database archive is a collection of database manifests that list the scripts to run to install a version of the database, along with any scripts and other items required to install the database. Currently there are two implementations of the database archive: FileDatabaseArchive and ZipDatabaseArchive.

The file based archive is simply a directory on your computer containing the database versions, and the zip based archive is just a file based archive compressed into a zip file. When using the tool, you don't need to specify which type of archive you are using; the tool determines this based on the archive that you provide.