Re: RIP DDL Wizard

Or better yet, open source the software so the community can update it. Do that thing you do Kellyn.

Andy K

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:04 PM Reen, Elizabeth <dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org> wrote:

> Agreed, but how hard is it to create a perpetual license key? They don’t
> need to update it, but to put the current owners out is not a good idea.
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> *To:* Jacek Gębal <jgebal_at_gmail.com>
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 5:16 PM Jacek Gębal <jgebal_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> utPLSQL was recently supported by RedGate and we're getting interest from
> their side in unit testing for Oracle PL/SQL & SQL.
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> 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.
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> On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 20:31, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman <dbakevlar_at_gmail.com>
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> 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).
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This tool was of tremendous benefit in it’s heyday and I for one will miss
> it.
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> Good bye DDL Wizard. Rest in Piece.
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