Re: Opinion on change control for DBA scripts
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:14:42 +0100
Message-ID: <51CC64F2.6050404_at_sanger.ac.uk>
I use version control for most of my scripts, in the past this has been CVS, now many of our developers use SVN and I check in code I write as well as keep separate backup copies (Im paranoid ;+) ) For me the value of revision control is that it allows me to remember what Ive done to code and when I break it I can go back to previous versions. However.....inherited scripts sometimes have sensitive information hardcoded (I know....) so beware if any that you have fall into this category ...
Norman
On 26/06/2013 21:40, Sandra Becker wrote:
Jeremy,
You bring up some good points I hadn't considered before. As the only DBA
at the company, I don't have to worry about other people changing my
scripts and I always make a copy before I do any edits. Something I
learned to do 20 years ago when I first became a DBA. None of the scripts
I lost were critical to the operation of the company, only to me as the
DBA. They use svn for the application code. I don't have access to svn
though. In the past I've been told it was only for application code, not
the silly little scripts a DBA would write. Development handles all the
control of svn.
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