Re: RIP DDL Wizard

I'm still trying to keep them interested in the Oracle side, it's just that they have so much weight in on the Microsoft side. I'm in the middle of a multi-part series on Linux for the DBA, but they know their audience. They are easily one of the top two vendors at PASS Summit each year and their lead evangelist, Grant Fritchey is the president of PASS, (formerly Professional Association of SQL Server). The other three evangelists are all Microsoft experts, too. They were my competing offer when I went to Microsoft and to be honest, they made it clear that they loved my Oracle expertise, but really wanted me for my DevOps knowledge most.

If you don't have the management, marketing and sales focus on a platform, it's difficult to find a reason to invest in it. Microsoft has worked out incredibly well for them and it's very supportive of partners, where many times, Oracle competes more heavily with it's partners, (just my 2c).

*Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman*
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:16 PM Jacek Gębal <jgebal_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman*
>> DBAKevlar Blog <http://dbakevlar.com>
>> President Denver SQL Server User Group <http://denversql.org/>
>> about.me/dbakevlar
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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