Re: How to manage the versions of databases ?

[Quoted] On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:20:59 +0000 (UTC), nicolas.ecarnot_at_bigfoot.com (Nicolas Ecarnot) wrote:

Have a look at www.ssw.com.au

They have developed a utility called DataPro?? which logs changes to you data structure and auto updates exisiting back ends when a new front end is distributed.

May be worth a look.

>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.
>
>So may you give us some URL pointers to web pages explaining how it's
>usually done, or explain us the theory of updating a database model.
>I suppose that some tools exists, so perhaps you know one of these tools.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>--
>Nicolas Ecarnot | E-mail: nicolas.ecarnot_at_bigfoot.com

Wayne Gillespie Received on Sat Feb 10 2001 - 00:46:01 CET