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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

By : Alexander Hansal
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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook

By: Alexander Hansal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Developer's Handbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Applying schema changes to local and server databases


All additions and modifications to data layer object types such as tables, columns, indexes, and user keys must become manifest in the physical database.

To accomplish this, Oracle provides two utilities, which we will discuss in this section:

  • Siebel Tools Apply feature

  • Synchronize Schema Definition process (ddlsync)

The Siebel Tools Apply feature is typically used by developers against their local databases but it also works against server databases.

The Synchronize Schema Definition process is intended for use against server databases and helps in automating the synchronization of the Siebel Repository metadata information against a physical database.

Using the Siebel Tools "Apply" feature

The following procedure describes how to use the Siebel Tools Apply feature against a local developer database or the Siebel Sample database to create new columns, indexes, and tables. We will use the tables created or modified in the case study examples...