Re: Update DB Schema

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 01:00:09 EDT

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    On Sep 6, 2004, at 11:42 PM, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have a project, and would like to modify the DB schema a bit (adding
    > new columns) without deleting all of my existing data. I know the
    > data modeler will create SQL commands to create tables, but is there
    > any functionality for it to create update commands? If not, what's
    > the best way to go about this? Update the SQL manually and the
    > rebuild my model in the data modeler by reverse-engineering the DB
    > schema? Or something different?

    Hi Kevin,

    If this is just such simple change, I would manually add a column to
    DB, and then manually add a corresponding attribute to DbEntity in
    CayenneModeler (and then you can "Sync ObjEntity with DbEntity).
    Reverse-engineering may be an overkill, as you may loose some of the
    model customizations (if you made any), such as flattened relationships
    or non-default names.

    Andrus



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