Re: How to manage the versions of databases ?

From: Vadim Tropashko <vadimtro_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 21:18:58 GMT
Message-ID: <961mro$lso$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>


In article <9043B7E4Bnicolasecarnot_at_195.25.12.38>,   nicolas.ecarnot_at_bigfoot.com (Nicolas Ecarnot) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my company, we sell a huge software that uses huges databases, and
 we
> modify the scheme of the databases almost every 3 months.
> This is very complex to manage for our customers, and we have to
 manually
> make big changes in their databases.
>
> We are looking for a way to manage rightly these updates, and we
 already
> have some ideas, but we can't imagine being the first company to deal
 with
> that hard problem.
>

[Quoted] Backward compatible views? In "inverse view" thread there is an example of very common nontrivial schema evolution, handled with views.

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