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Change Manager blends roles of DBAs, developers

By Alex Handy

September 26, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
Embarcadero Technologies is bringing developers closer to databases with its Monday release of Embarcadero Change Manager 5.0. This version is the first since the company's acquisition of CodeGear, and while the synergy hasn't quite reached Change Manager, the lines between developer and DBA are already blurring.

Gregory M. Keller, vice president of product management at Embarcadero, said that while those lines may be hazy, proper life-cycle management can keep the flow going.

“It takes a village to revise an application,” said Keller. “It starts with business drivers and ends with wholesale moves over a weekend, from development to test machines and on to production. The foundation of Change Manager was designed with multiple constituencies in mind: DBAs and developers at the core. So when a developer has done a comparison, taken snapshots and has a modification of the deep code in the database, we can bring that to the DBA.”

Change Manager can hold numerous schemas in memory and compare them to newly taken snapshots to determine exactly where change has occurred. This Eclipse-based tool brings database administrators the details of each change and can tie such modifications to their repercussions throughout databases.

“Developers are then integrating with DBAs in the same way they integrate with each other," said Keller. "They're checking code into a source control system and triggering tickets to go to DBAs, [who] then push to production."

The latest version of Change Manager adds support for DB/2 9.5, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 11g. The tool's metadata queries were sped up to increase the performance of comparisons between databases, and new source controls were added via the Eclipse API.

The release of Change Manager 5.0 will likely be one of the last that is accomplished inside of Embarcadero without input from CodeGear. While some collaboration between the companies did occur, Keller said that this was, technically, not produced with the help of CodeGear.

CodeGear's chief evangelist, David Intersimone, said that the new focus on databases doesn't really change much for CodeGear, save for the potential points of synergy.

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