Jeff Ledbetter Roundtable Product Architect Expert Database Updates and Delivery Roundtable TSMS

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 2 Tugboat Software  Progress Technology Alliance Partner  Roundtable TSMS  Roundtable Team  Other Solutions SOS Labor Scheduling SOS Vacation Scheduling

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 3 Session Agenda  What is Roundtable and SCM?  Logical Schema  Schema Domains  Updating the Physical Database  Promoting Schema Changes  Sneak Preview  Questions

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 4 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.

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 5 Software Configuration Management Software Configuration Management is the discipline of managing the entire life cycle of a software project.

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 6 Software Configuration Management Gary S. Clink, Senior Solutions Engineer Progress Software, UK 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.

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 7 Software Configuration Management  Configuration Identification  Configuration Control  Configuration Status Accounting  Configuration Auditing

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 8  Identify application components  Define the physical and functional hierarchy  Identify application configurations Configuration Identification

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 9  Establish configuration security  Manage application changes  Define workflow Configuration Control

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 10  Ensure existence of required components  Review configuration changes Configuration Auditing

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 11  Identify changes made to configuration  Identify work in process Configuration Status Accounting

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 12 Problem – Managing Schema without SCM  Store.df files  No history of schema changes  Difficult to revert to previous schema releases  Promoting schema changes is manual process  No impact analysis

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 13 Solution – Logical Schema Management  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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 14 Logical Schema – Object Types  PDBASE Database Object Definition  PFILE File Object definition  PFIELD Field Object definition Sports Sports Customer Customer Customer.Name Customer.Number

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 15 Logical Schema - PDBASE  Database Object Definition  PDBASE is a collection of... PFILE Objects Sequence definitions Sports2000 (WIP) 2.0.0Customer 1.0.0Order 2.0.0OrderLine 1.1.0Warehouse PFILE assignments are attributes of this version of the PDBASE Object

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 16 Sports2000 (1.0.0)CustomerOrderOrderLine Logical Schema - PDBASE  Different versions of PDBASE Objects can have… Different PFILE Object assignments Different Sequence definitions Sports2000 (2.0.0)CustomerOrderOrderLineWarehouse New PFILE Object assignment for this version

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 17 Logical Schema - PFILE  File Object Definition  PFILE is a collection of… PFIELD Objects Index definitions Customer (WIP) 2.0.0CustNum 1.0.0Name 2.0.0City 1.1.0Hairstyle PFIELD assignments are attributes of this version of the PFILE Object

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 18 Customer (1.0.0)CustNumNameCity Logical Schema - PFILE  Different versions of PFILE Objects can have… Different PFIELD Object assignments Different Index Definitions Customer (2.0.0)CustNumNameCityHairstyle New PFIELD Object assignment for this version

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 19 Logical Schema - PFIELD  Field Object Definition  Different versions of PFIELD Objects can have different attributes  Can be assigned to multiple parents

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 20 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 21 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 22 Logical Schema - Putting it Together Demo

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 23 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 24 FIELD Object myNameField Customer.NameSupplier.NameWarehouse.Name Logical Schema – PFIELD Domain Provides a single PFIELD definition for multiple assignments The PFIELD assignments inherit changes made to the domain PFIELD definition

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 25 Logical Schema – Schema Domains Demo

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 26 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 27 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 28 Delivering Schema Changes Demo

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 29 Some Common Problems  Partially promoting schema changes  Making schema changes twice  Manually reverting physical schema  Confusing loading and udpating

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 30 Roundtable What’s Coming  Schema viewer  Schema compare  Improved Schema Update UI  Improved data procedure handling  Direct manipulation via plug-in for OEA

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 31 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

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 32 More Information   White Papers  Come by our Booth!

© 2011 Tugboat Software. All rights reserved. 33 Questions