http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/ 2010-07-14T09:52:07-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/ http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-21T09:25:53-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/doku.php/database_cm?rev=1211379953&do=diff Database CM, like software CM, means different things to different people. From our perspective, though, it is about providing the same benefits to a development shop that SCM does, even when some or all of the development involves a database. Database CM is just SCM on a database, if you will. Unfortunately, “SCM on a database” is damn hard. Hard enough, in fact, that there are a bunch of tools, free and commercial, trying to get a handle on it. text/html 2008-05-21T09:25:33-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/doku.php/database_cm/three_ways?rev=1211379933&do=diff There are three ways to do change or configuration management of a database. Two of them are “traditional,” and the third is LDM. Let's look at them all. SQL is by its nature a change language. The individual statements in SQL are mostly focused on changing an existing database. While you use CREATE TABLE at first, every subsequent update will use ALTER TABLE. Manipulating data is done with INSERT and UPDATE commands. To explicitly set the entire contents of a row is an elaborate form of … text/html 2008-04-18T20:58:16-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/doku.php/reviews/byname/guiffy_suremerge/20060706?rev=1208570296&do=diff Editorial Notes Date: March 2006 Product: Guiffy SureMerge 7.2 “Dogwood” Vendor: Guiffy Software (<http://www.guiffy.com>) Reviewer: Austin Hastings Bill Ritcher, coder and CEO of Guiffy, is aware of the review. He became aware about half-way through when I was contacting him for help with various issues. After the review was published, Guiffy began providing a link to the review from their product web site. text/html 2008-04-18T17:57:39-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/doku.php/tools/compare?rev=1208559459&do=diff diff is of course the archetype of this class of tools. There are various implementations of the Unix command line diff utility, but the GNU diffutils package is considered representative of all of these. The tools are: * Beyond Compare * diffutils * Guiffy SureMerge text/html 2008-04-18T17:56:55-05:00 http://www.longacre-scm.com/wiki/doku.php/tools/byname/guiffy_suremerge?rev=1208559415&do=diff SureMerge is a Java-based tool for both compare and merge operations. The tool is the primary focus of Guiffy Software. Austin Hastings wrote a review of the tool for the CM Crossroads web site. That review is available here, as well.