In our last few posts, we discussed why RTC and dbMaestro TeamWork™ must work together, and how bringing the two together can help properly align business requirements with development activities.
As we continue to highlight the benefits that can be obtained by integrating our database change management solution with RTC, we’ll focus next on how the two solutions can work seamlessly together to enable more comprehensive and accurate tracking and monitoring of change histories.
In many IT environments, information about the changes made to software code are often stored separately from the details about the modifications made to underlying databases. For example, the software and application development team will track their changes in a software configuration management system, while database administrators and developers will use an Oracle database change management solution to do the same.
This silo’ed approach can create numerous problems. For example, it can minimize coordination and create disconnects between software and database development groups, making it difficult (or nearly impossible) for each to see what the other is doing. This, in turn, may cause conflicts and problems that can negatively impact database and application. And often, these issues won’t be detected until the changes are deployed into production.
But, when TeamWork and RTC are brought together, all project stakeholders will be empowered with a single, unified view of all changes made – to both the software code, and associated database schemas and objects. The entire history of modifications will be available in one single, easy to access place. So, it will be available for review or updating at any time. As a result, efficiency will be increased, and the risk of complications and problems in production environments caused by lack of synchronization between software and database developers will be virtually eliminated.
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