dbMorph - a database change manager / News: Recent posts

Welcome Karo to the project!

I have already written software like dbMorph before. It was written in PHP and for Oracle only. It works great and satisfies all developers who have to make concurrent database changes.

The slowdown for dbMorph over past 2 weeks has been learning Python. I think now I got a good grasp of it and am proceeding with development. The core of the class relationships is in place - now it's time for all the fun stuff. I really want this tool to be easy to build on top of. I'm supporting MySQL and Oracle only in the first version - if you want to support other DBs, you should be able to just by adding maybe one class. ... read more

Development is starting on 2/4 (Monday).

Here are some excerpts from the proposal:

What is it?

A tool to keep database objects and stored procedures synchronized with application code in a multi-developer environment with a short release cycle and multiple development branches. Tie-in to svn (subversion) for version control.

Why do I need it?

Historically, applying database changes falls onto the shoulders of both system administrators, database administrators and developers. This role is not very well defined and varies widely from project to project. DbMorph allows the roles to be more defined, as follows:... read more