Any cummulative SQL update should be named like that: YYYYMMDDupdate(_s).sql For example, if only one update is done in a single day, let's say on January 1, 2008, then the file shall be named: 20080101update.sql However, if a more than one updates are all done on the same day, a sequence number will be added: 20080101update.sql 20080101update_1.sql 20080101update_2.sql 20080101update_3.sql etc...