RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

There's an excellent tool by the company Kintana that automates the deployment of software (which can include stored packages and procedures, as well as shell scripts, SQL*Loader, whatever). The developer creates a "release" with the file names and version numbers in PVCS or ClearCase, and the tool extracts and runs the approprate files on other servers as determined by "workflows" -- so you can use this tool to go from dev to QA to production, etc. Very nice tool, I'd highly recommend it. And no, I am not affiliated, just a happy user.

Diana Duncan
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Lisa,

This is what we did in my last project:

1. Developers had access to the application schema where they created and modified procedures/functions/triggers as needed
2. After their unit testing is done, the QA team would test it using the front-end application.
3. Once QA team approves the new/enhanced functionality, the developers would check in the code using PVCS and notify the DBA vith the PVCS version number and the object name.
4. The DBA tracks the object version numbers along with the application releases and implements the necessary changes in the production box. Developers did not have any rights on the production box.

HTH! Prakash

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Hi -

I'd like some advice on implementing stored procedures containing application logic (ie. written by developers). We have several applications
where the developers use stored procedures for much of their coding. We let
the developers create or replace their procedures in a development environment under their own schema (with access to all application tables, etc.) to test the logic, but it currently requires a DBA to implement the proc under the application schema. It has gotten to be a very time-consuming job. We don't want to give out the schema owner password to the developers, nor do we know of a way they could add them as the schema owner without giving them more privileges than we want.

I am curious of how others are handling stored procedure additions and modifications. Do you somehow allow developers this access? If so, how do you restrict them from damaging other things? If not, does the DBA do it? Does anyone have an automated way? Also, do you keep track of the original "source code" for the procedure, or do you extract it out of the database as needed?

Thanks so much for your input -
Lisa

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