Version-Control / Change-Management

Hi there,
I know there is a nice function in Enterprise Manager controlling your versions of your database-design and your schemas.
That means: I can compare to schemas and the enterprise manager shows me the difference and what was changed during the last check.
Does anybody know, how this feature is called and where I can get more infos?
Thanx for help,
Christian

Hi Joe,
we are using Subversion and the Tortoise Client for version control of project files. For the forms modules we inheritated via OLB a parameter in each forms module with initial value like "$Revision:: 1234 $" which can be overwritten by subversion in case of check-in. For libraries/reports we use a dummy function which returns the revision string. So the revision can be set by Subversion on check-out/check-in and can be displayed/retrieved at runtime in the application.
Subversion/Tortoise can be configured to lock files on check-out, and to enter some comments on check-in. We use it for every kind of project file, e.g. database scripts, documentation, specifications, etc.
For the deployment of final solutions we have created a small PHP-script which compiles all source files newer than the compilated files. This script is able to "distribute" all compilated files into a specified directory. Then we have to call our administrator who will copy the contents of this directory to the live servers.
Hope this infos may help you.
Regards
Kai

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