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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2023

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not just create but also alter/drop statements.

Also this tool should be efficient on the source side just bulk extracting the various catalog tables. Any decoding of the catalog data should be done on the apply side.
This would be better when extracting from production and applying to test.

On the apply side if constraints cannot be met there should be a flag to skip them with a warning e.g. not null skipped on new columns for tables containing data. The data can then be fixed and the tool run again without the 'skip constraint errors' flag.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)