RE: how do you handle your DDL builds?

It's helpful to distinguish between the IT world and the ISV world. Is your product sold to other companies (ISV) or is it used for your business only (IT)?  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Rick Ricky Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:08 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: how do you handle your DDL builds?  

We have a production database. We want to change tables, structure, etc... We do this frequently. How do you script this? So far I have been using upgrade directories.  

upgrade

     version1

     version2  

However, this leaves me with a problem. I can do an add column to a table in version1, but then I have to change my base DDL of the table, but how do I know that table works? Where would I test that my new create table statement works? You can do all this manually, but its slow, time consuming, and prone to bugs.

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