Deployment of mappings - Best Pracice wanted

Hi,
I would like to share experience about deploying mapping on a production system with OWB 9.2. Till today we were using OWB 9.0.2 and the migration of a new release of project from the development environment to the production system was done, by providing to the DBAs DDL scripts of the Oracle Objects impacted by the new release (packages, tables, ....). That's mean the DBAs was not using OWB to install release in the production system.
But with release OWB 9.2 I can see that during the deployment OWB save some data about the mapping in the runtime respository, so it seems that the way to move to production I explain above will no more work. Does it mean I have to provide OWB to the DBA that install the project on the production system. If yes I think it will be difficult to convince them to use it or is it a way to provide them generic deployment scipts ???
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
Claude-Alain

Claude-Alain,
There are multiple ways to handle your issue today. You are however correct in your assumption: things have changed and your current approach does not necessarily work.
What you could do is:
- Generate individual scripts and hand those over to the DBA. This is a very cumbersome process because OWB does not provide a multiple file save option (this is an issue that is going to be addressed in the next release).
- Generate the entire script and store it to a deployment specification. In the production environment you have to have a design repository with a project that has a runtime repository... (this restriction will also be removed in the next release), registered locations and then you can deploy using the scripting language to the production environment.
- Connect directly to the runtime environment to generate (and deploy) the scripts. This option is the most correct one in the sense that you generate against exactly the settings and object definitions in the production environment. I.e. if you want to generate upgrade scripts, then these go against the most current definitions. However, assuming that the DBA performs all deployments, this may mean that you would ask your DBA to use Warehouse Builder also. What you can do is set up a security role for the DBA to only allow deployment from his/her user account.
Hope this explains.
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