DBAShell Version 0.80 Released

DBAShell is a new project based around Shell functions and scripts designed to make it easy for DBA's to use Databases in a command line environment. Currently supported is Oracle with bash on AIX, Solaris, Linux. The code base itself is 3 years old and has been in use in Production environments all of that time.

Features include:

* Automatic setting of all environment variables based on SID requested.
* Manage PATH's and other path like variables for each ORACLE_HOME needed.
* Run scripts with stored passwords (no more hard-coding of passwords!!)
* Automatically set SID based on Script location (makes it easier to share scripts between SID's)
* manage temporary script output and check for oracle errors in output
* check database status and versions from scripts
* stop/start databases in parallel (faster startup)
* compile all database objects
* analyze objects in parallel (Faster analyzes)
* set aliases and variables for common SID areas, etc..
* many helpful commands for common Oracle tasks

Project Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbashell/
Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dbashell/dbashell-0.80.tar.gz?download
Release Notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=170224&release_id=426929
Documentation: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=33704&group_id=170224

Future releases will concentrate on opening up support for other databases, other shells (ksh, etc..), and other OS's.