Expert Database Updates
and Delivery
Roundtable TSMS
Jeff Ledbetter
Roundtable Product Architect
Tugboat Software
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Progress Technology Alliance Partner
Roundtable TSMS
Roundtable Team
Other Solutions
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• SOS Vacation Scheduling
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Session Agenda
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What is Roundtable and SCM?
Logical Schema
Schema Domains
Updating the Physical Database
Promoting Schema Changes
Sneak Preview
Questions
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Roundtable TSMS
Roundtable TSMS is a team-oriented
extension for the OpenEdge Studio and
OpenEdge Architect development
environments that provides Software
Configuration Management and
developer productivity tools.
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Software Configuration Management
Software Configuration Management is
the discipline of managing the entire
life cycle of a software project.
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Software Configuration Management
Software Configuration Management is the heartbeat of
any serious software development effort. One would not
start mass producing a car without first building a factory
and defining the production line. SCM is THE factory for
software development. It is the discipline, based on the
principles of the manufacturing industry that brings
repeatable, high-quality production to your software
applications.
Gary S. Clink, Senior Solutions Engineer
Progress Software, UK
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Software Configuration Management
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Configuration Identification
Configuration Control
Configuration Status Accounting
Configuration Auditing
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Configuration Identification
 Identify application components
 Define the physical and functional hierarchy
 Identify application configurations
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Configuration Control
 Establish configuration security
 Manage application changes
 Define workflow
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Configuration Auditing
 Ensure existence of required components
 Review configuration changes
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Configuration Status Accounting
 Identify changes made to configuration
 Identify work in process
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Problem – Managing Schema without SCM
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Store .df files
No history of schema changes
Difficult to revert to previous schema releases
Promoting schema changes is manual process
No impact analysis
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Solution – Logical Schema Management
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Stored in Roundtable repository
Access controlled by security settings
Changes associated with a task
Version history per schema object
Promoted through lifecycle
Revert to previous versions
Impact analysis
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Logical Schema – Object Types
Sports2000 - 2.0.0
Sports2000 -1.0.0
Customer -1.1.0
Customer -1.0.0
Customer.Name -1.0.0
Customer.Number -1.0.0
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 PDBASE
• Database Object Definition
 PFILE
• File Object definition
 PFIELD
• Field Object definition
Logical Schema - PDBASE
 Database Object Definition
 PDBASE is a collection of...
• PFILE Objects
• Sequence definitions
Sports2000 (WIP) 2.0.0
Customer 1.0.0
Order 2.0.0
OrderLine 1.1.0
Warehouse 1.0.0
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PFILE assignments
are attributes of
this version of the
PDBASE Object
Logical Schema - PDBASE
 Different versions of PDBASE Objects can have…
• Different PFILE Object assignments
• Different Sequence definitions
Sports2000 (2.0.0)
New PFILE
Object
assignment for
this version
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Customer
Order
Sports2000 (1.0.0)
Customer
OrderLine
Order
Warehouse
OrderLine
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Logical Schema - PFILE
 File Object Definition
 PFILE is a collection of…
• PFIELD Objects
• Index definitions
Customer (WIP) 2.0.0
CustNum 1.0.0
Name 2.0.0
City 1.1.0
Hairstyle 1.0.0
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PFIELD
assignments are
attributes of this
version of the
PFILE Object
Logical Schema - PFILE
 Different versions of PFILE Objects can have…
• Different PFIELD Object assignments
• Different Index Definitions
Customer (2.0.0)
CustNum
New PFIELD
Object
assignment for
this version
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Customer (1.0.0)
Name
CustNum
City
Name
Hairstyle
City
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Logical Schema - PFIELD
 Field Object Definition
 Different versions of PFIELD Objects can have
different attributes
 Can be assigned to multiple parents
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Logical Schema – Direct Manipulation
 Logical schema Object definitions are
created/modified via Roundtable
 Logical Schema is modified/assembled using
Schema Manager
 Logical Schema is later applied to physical database
via Schema Update
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Logical Schema – Indirect Manipulation
 Schema Object definitions can be loaded from a
physical database using Load Schema tool
 Preview and selectively load schema changes
 Logical schema is updated automatically
 Automatically create update notes
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Logical Schema - Putting it Together
Demo
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Schema Domains
 Assignment of a single PFIELD or PFILE Object to
multiple parents
 Share a common Object definition
 Facilitates managing common fields across multiple
tables
 Not supported via Schema Load
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Logical Schema – PFIELD Domain
• Provides a single PFIELD definition for multiple
assignments
• The PFIELD assignments inherit changes made to the
domain PFIELD definition
FIELD Object
myNameField
Customer.Name
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Supplier.Name
Warehouse.Name
Logical Schema – Schema Domains
Demo
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Promoting Schema Changes
• Schema changes can be promoted through
development life-cycle
• Make schema changes once and push them
downstream
• Update downstream physical databases using
Schema Update
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Delivering Schema Changes
• Schema changes can be delivered to your end-user
by including schema in a Workspace deployment
• Data Processing procedures can also be included in
your deployment
• Database updating and data transformation
processing is automated at your end-user site with
the Roundtable setup and update tools
• Roundtable is not required at the end-user site
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Delivering Schema Changes
Demo
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Some Common Problems
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Partially promoting schema changes
Making schema changes twice
Manually reverting physical schema
Confusing loading and udpating
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Roundtable 11.0 - What’s Coming
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Schema viewer
Schema compare
Improved Schema Update UI
Improved data procedure handling
Direct manipulation via plug-in for OEA
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What Did We Learn
 Software Configuration Management is a defined set
of principals
 Roundtable manages logical schema definitions
 Schema domain Objects are an effective way to
manage common fields
 Deployments help deliver targeted schema
application schema changes
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More Information
 www.roundtable-tsms.com
 White Papers
 Come by our Booth!
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Questions
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