Authors:
Stephen Mc Kearney
1
and
Konstantina Lepinioti
2
Affiliations:
1
Datatrust Software, United Kingdom
;
2
School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Databases, database schema, version control, source code control, change management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business Analytics
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Management and Quality
;
Data Warehouses and Data Mining
;
e-Business
;
Engineering Information System
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Quality
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
Abstract:
This paper introduces a database configuration management tool, called DBVersion, that provides database developers with many of the benefits of source code control systems and integrates with software configuration tools such as Subversion. While there has been a lot of research in software configuration management and source code control, little of the work has investigated database configuration issues. DBVersion’s main contribution is to allow database developers to use working practices such as version control, branching and concurrent working that have proved successful in traditional software development.