Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
There are many important steps that must be followed when working within a database version control solution. But, perhaps one of the most critical activities is the management of table content.
In many cases, the content of a parameter, lookup, or metadata table will have a profound impact on the behavior and performance of the application being developed. When altering any of those objects as part of a version update, developers must treat those modifications in the same way they would any other changes to code or database structure.
Yet, many developers keep a complete set of updates for other objects, but fail to do the same for the relevant data changes. This often leads to bugs and other malfunctions that can result in downtime.
dbMaestro TeamWork™, our innovative change management software, helps developers overcome this challenge by allowing them to define which tables are crucial to application behavior. TeamWork’s comprehensive content management capabilities will then be automatically applied only to those specified tables.
From then on, developers will be required to “check-out” and “check-in” table content, in order to change the values of the data within that table (i.e. insert, update, delete, etc.). As a result, they can leverage truly complete Oracle change management, with the ability to recreate tables when needed for debug, crisis recovery, investigation of changes, and more.
Visit our Web site to learn more TeamWork’s content management functionality, as well the other features of this unique database management software.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Do you wonder how the changes you are currently making in your development environment will impact your production databases? Do you “keep your fingers crossed” when deploying new modifications, hoping they won’t have too much of an effect on your live systems?
We all know that this approach is not ideal. But, how much would you be willing to pay for a solution that could provide you with such valuable information in advance?
There are a variety of database performance tools on the market today that will provide you with this type of knowledge on high traffic objects such as important indexes or frequent procedures. These products will also help you uncover and solve issues. But, they don’t allow you to be prevent issues in production environments, they simply enable you to correct a problem after the fact.
An innovative, next-generation database change management solution, dbMaestro TeamWork™, is designed to provide you with truly proactive change management. When integrated with third-party performance tools that provide details on frequent packages, used indexes, and other important usage data, TeamWork will dynamically notify database administrators (DBAs) when critical objects are changed in the development phase. These automatic alerts let key stakeholders know each time a schema or metadata is updated. As a result, they can stop problems before they hinder the performance of production environments.
Visit our Website to learn more about proactive change management, and the other innovative features of dbMaestro TeamWork.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
As the role of databases and related systems becomes increasingly important in facilitating operational excellence for today’s businesses, companies are seeking new ways to boost the productivity of their database administrators (DBAs). With the average DBA spending as much as 80 percent of their time on routine systems maintenance, many companies want to empower them to devote more effort to more strategic technology initiatives.
One task that takes up a tremendous amount of time is the creation of merge scripts for deployment between environments. For example, when unifying different versions of a database, potential conflicts must be located and addressed. Performing these actions manually is not only time-consuming, it is highly error-prone, often resulting in the need to rollback changes, and start over.
Traditional compare and sync tools can also be ineffective and unproductive, producing shallow results or incomplete information that forces the DBA to conduct further investigation. They also lack flexibility when it comes to handling conflicts and deploying changes.
A next-generation database change management solution, dbMaestro TeamWork™, includes a unique and powerful Merge Wizard, unlike any other available in the database world today. This three-way compare and merge tool provides deep analysis of all changes – including revisions to database objects – with relevance to previous versions or reference environments. TeamWork will not only deliver detailed insight into all modifications, it will recommend appropriate actions for handling each change. And, if conflicts exist, it will dynamically detect them and alert the DBA, and suggest the best possible resolution based on the available information.
But, most importantly, once all issues have been uncovered, and the best way to handle them has been defined, TeamWork will automatically generate merge scripts in just a single click of a button, saving DBAs tremendous time and effort and dramatically increasing their productivity. That time can then be used for more strategic tasks, such as conducting performance reviews, or other activities that will directly impact user satisfaction.
For more detail on our three-way compare and merge tool, and what makes it so superior, read our post titled “Three-Way Analysis and Merge: Advantages vs. Traditional Compare and Sync Tools”.
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