At work we are using Oracle (ick) for the database of a client (this is a migration from a previous company’s project, so the database was set in stone, unfortunately).
This has not caused any major headaches (save from the usual Oracle vs. MSSQL stuff), until now: We’re at a point where five seperate developers are developing five seperate enhancements for the system, each using a different branch in Perforce.
Can anyone suggest a good way to keep track of version changes in Oracle: mainly Stored Procedures but also (possibly) changes to the table architecture?
At the moment we’re simply attaching ‘Create or replace’ scripts to FogBugz cases, but there have been times when this has caused changes to go unnoticed, whcih quicky propagates to a large headache !
N.B. it’s not possible to have more than one copy of the database itself, as it’s just far too big.
A very similar question was asked before Database source control with Oracle which I answered then.
Summary – DDL and Stored Procedures are code which should be managed in a version control tool just like Java, C# or whatever.