Re: RIP DDL Wizard

utPLSQL was recently supported by RedGate and we're getting interest from their side in unit testing for Oracle PL/SQL & SQL. It seems strange that they are giving up on some of their products for Oracle DB given their overall interest in DB DevOps and CI/CD.

Cheers
Jacek

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 20:31, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman <dbakevlar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry to hear this and will be giving the folks over there a hard time
> about it. Although Redgate doesn't have the following on the Oracle side
> like they do on the Microsoft SQL side, its still a shame to see it go.
> With their huge impact on the DevOps, CI/CD with their SQL Provision,
> (think thin clone with data masking) product plugged in with their SQL
> Toolbelt, they've got quite the customer base, with Oracle supported stuff
> just a side gig, (same with MySQL and other db platforms).
>
> Good to know about DDL Wizard.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:03 PM Matt Adams <MAdams_at_equian.com> wrote:
>
>> I just found out that Redgate (the purchasers of the DDL Wizard
>> developers Net 2000 LTD.) will no longer supply license keys for any
>> version, including the free/unsupported version. Which means that while
>> the software can still be downloaded, it’s useless.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know that DDL Wizard has largely been replaced by the DBMS_METADATA
>> package and features built into software packages like TOAD and SQL
>> DEVELOPER, but I still used it on a regular basis and still loved it.
>> Unfortunately, my previous laptop has died, and I cannot run DDL Wizard on
>> the new one.
>>
>>
>>
>> This tool was of tremendous benefit in it’s heyday and I for one will
>> miss it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good bye DDL Wizard. Rest in Piece.
>>
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