I know you think you had a point in there somewhere but damned if I can find
it. If you can execute the script in Sql*Plus, then you can execute the
script in TOAD just as well. And are you saying that 99% of your
development staff spends their time modifying those version controlled
script files? How positively primitive.
> what about development, version management and deployment? I got the
feeling,
> this discussion is strongly oriented around "foodling around in a
production
> environment".
>
> In a development environment, *all* scripts ought to be SQL+ scripts.
Perfectly
> platform independent! We rebuild our development databases completely
automated.
> The actual scripts are taken from the version control system and via one
> NT-batch/Unix-shell-script executed. We don't rely on anything not
incorporated
> in the Oracle standard environment. When we deliver, the customers DBA
only has
> to edit some lines (passwords and net service names) and let it go. No
need to
> take care of the presence of any third-party-tool. No need to make 100
clicks,
> start enterprise manager, then edit that script and afterwards delete
something
> over there blabla...
>
> Hope, you get the point: quality assurance, reproduceability, platform
> independence, automatation
>
> How will you achieve this with klickyklicky?
>
>
> Marc Blum
> mailto:marc_at_marcblum.de
> http://www.marcblum.de
Received on Sat Aug 31 2002 - 10:18:47 CDT
