Calling all software developers and database professionals! Join the Change Manager version 5.1 beta test program. Embarcadero Change Manager is a powerful set of tools to help you simplify and automate the database change management lifecycle.
Change Manager’s schema compare and alter, data compare and synchronization, and configuration auditing capabilities report on database changes, roll out new releases, and pinpoint database performance problems that result from both planned and unplanned changes.
By comparing a live database to a schema, or configuration "snapshot", administrators can quickly identify changes and correct problems in less time. By monitoring configuration settings, DBAs can ensure compliance with regulatory policies and performance standards, and maintain overall database performance and availability. Change Manager supports IBM® DB2® for LUW, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, and Sybase®.
We are currently recruiting Beta Program participants, especially database and application developers who work with Unicode and multiple database platforms. If you would like to participate you can register online at: https://beta.embarcadero.com/callout/default.html?callid=4B9F211DEDCE4E89A9987E2E570ABD2B.
Change Manager v5.1 new features at a glance:
- Auto-Synchronization options on the data comparison (using the DT/Engine) and schema comparison jobs to make the target match the source when the job is run
- Data Masking: shuffle or randomize columns in a data comparison with auto-synchronization job
- Unicode support
- Cross-DBMS platform schema comparison between Oracle and SQL Server, and Sybase and SQL Server
- Data comparison job history, track high level results of previous data comparison jobs on a new history page in the data comparison job editor
- Project support allows users to group jobs and results into named groupings, each of which can be independently connected with source code control repositories via Eclipse plug-ins provided by
third parties - Reworked schema comparison results: actions and comparison outcomes clearly enumerated, quick-type filtering, counts of resolution types, clearer layout
- Email notification enhancements including a test button in the configuration setup and contact imports/exports
- Integrates with DB Optimizer and Rapid SQL Developer in the same shell
- Updated data comparison mapping page adding high level alerts and warnings when mappings are invalid and incomplete, set custom warning levels for situations such as length mismatches, constraints on the target, and precision/scale differences.
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You don’t support Interbase? You don’t even support your own product? I doubt we would be interested since we develop and test on Interbase and then roll over to our clients database of choice (mostly SQL Server, & Oracle). Interesting though….but i didn’t even go further than your press release since it wont work for us anyways.
Thanks for the feedback. We know Interbase is important and are working on supporting it in all our database tools. Watch for it in Change Manager later this summer/fall!
-Gord, Program Manager for Change Manager
Looks promising, yet the lack of Firebird and Interbase support keeps turning me away. Support for Firebird in Embarcadero Database products is seriously lacking at the moment. I will wait until their product range supports Firebird before I considering using their database tools.
InterBase (and Firebird) will be supported in upcoming releases (this year and into early next year) all of the database tool products.
You don’t have to rely in built-in database support … there are many other stable "native" (VCL) database drivers out there, that will most likely port well to any upcoming release of Embarcadero dev products… So I fail to see why that is a show-stopper for Interbase, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc…
The lessons learnt by using the BDE for many years have weened me and many other developers from using the "obvious" choices.
The denial of Borland and CodeGear to Firebird, was something like a darkness period. It’s good that Delphi will now openly support Firebird.
Certainly, Firebird is an amazing product (in part by to be a "son" of Interbase).
If Embarcadero was smart, they would reconcile with the Firebird project, and merge InterBase with it.
Specifically, they should donate prior versions of InterBase to open source, reserving only the latest version as proprietary code. Then donate some funds to the Firebird project to integrate the InterBase source, so that the API’s re-merge. (They could use some of the improvements made in Firebird too- although there’s evidence that they already do.)
The idea would be that if you want professional, commercial support and the latest feature set, you’d buy InterBase licenses. But otherwise, you’d use Firebird.
That’s basically how it works now, but I suspect that there are many Firebird users who might CONSIDER using Interbase except for the incompatibilities that have emerged and because of the perceived animosity dating back to Borland days, which many of us feel is childish and vindictive, and does nothing but harm Interbase’s (and now Embarcadero’s) image.
Another point: Embarcadero needs to realize that the old policy of shunning Firebird accomplished nothing. Even if they could TOTALLY ELIMINATE Firebird today, it wouldn’t improve Interbase sales at all. People who need a no-distribution-cost database have SEVERAL good options - MySQL, PostreSQL, SQLLite, etc. They’re not automatically going to start paying for Interbase.
Embarcadero needs to realize that Firebird’s existence could HELP Interbase, if they handle it right. Fortunately, there’s some evidence that the management of THIS company is NOT stupid (unlike the last owner of CodeGear), so maybe there’s a chance that will happen now.
We can not connect to SSL enabled Sybase ASE using this new version. DBArtisan can connect with out any issues, so wonder what changed?
The error message says:
"connection failed: Failed to create a connection. Url or driver class may be incorrect.I/O Error: DB server closed connection.
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