RE: REPLICATION (816) of functions/procedure

Rachel,

You make an excellent point. In fact periodic source code extraction for differencing against the checked in, approved production release or some variant on that theme should be part of the audit policy. When you find a difference that was not processed through change management (at least as an emergency, meaning logged but no review until later), then you start looking for an explanation. Most folks I work with have change management policies, and nearly all of them do after I work with them. Definitely, what is in use is in dba_source, and managing that it matches what is checked in in the change management system is only as good as adherence to and correctness of the change management system.

Also, in case the OP was thinking there might be some automated replication of stored functions and procedures, I'm not aware of any built in way to do that in Oracle. Many consulting firms and individual companies construct various "move-ups" systems that propagate code to the desired destination(s). Usually these get tailored to individual installations.

mwf

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Rachel Carmichael Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 8:34 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: REPLICATION (816) of functions/procedure

May I make the point that having the script source in no way ensures that you have the code as it is in the database you are copying from?

There are way too many people who make "quick fixes" without updating source repositories. I've been known to do that myself, I freely admit.

I *always* take the source code from dba_source when I am replicating packages/procedures/functions. This may be a case of DBA paranoia but it takes no more time than pulling code from a source code repository and allows me to sleep through the night after a change. There are several good programs available (some free, some cost) that do that easily and quickly.

Rachel

• "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:

> Well, first I hope you actually have the script source used to create
> them
> originally.
>
> If not, you should be able to get the code out of dba_source.
>

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