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Re: Database Version Management

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:22:13 -0700
Message-ID: <1130253726.19384@yasure>


egooli_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A few months ago I've had several conversations with people on various
> forums about building an open source tool for database version
> management, a sort of source control tool for RDBMSes. I've worked
> quite a lot on it since then, and I think it's more or less ready to be
> tested by someone other than me.
>
> The concept is simple. Our source control tools all support managing
> versions of text files. We want to manage versions of a database. So we
> need to represent the database as a text file and store it in the
> source control.
> We'll also need the ability to generate an SQL script for a given
> structure and to compare two structures to generate a script that
> changes a database.
>
> That is what Daversy does, or intends to do. There's a command line
> client, a provider for both Oracle and SQLite and both a tutorial and a
> wiki to get you started.
>
> Daversy is not production quality yet, but I've tried to test it as
> well as I could on my own and it seems to be working.
>
> I'd really love to hear your comments.
>
> www.daversy.org
>
> Eli.

I doubt you'll "really love to hear" my comments.

Best case, from an Oracle standpoint I think you wasted your time reinventing the wheel.

Worst case ... this is just spam and has no place in this group. Please apologize and repost at c.d.o.marketplace.

Thank you.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Tue Oct 25 2005 - 10:22:13 CDT

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