Thanks Keith, I'll check it out. 

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Baby Oven
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
5259 Coconut Creek Parkway
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA  33063


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Peterson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:55 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject:      RE: ERD generation tool - Active SCM
> 
> Lisa,
> There is only so much you can control via a model,
> since it remains a process away from the DB, and
> cannot be enforced via privileges, etc.  So, we are
> always in the hands of Dom Phoc (and their siblings),
> who can do "stuff" even in the production database
> with SQLPLus/TOAD/...  Under this schenario, do you
> sleep well at night?
> 
> So, we said lets work with our Dom Phoc's.  On
> production databases, we will STRIP them off of the
> Oracle database passwords.  No password, no change. 
> ENFORCED!  Now, I can sleep well at night.  
> 
> How? Not via models.  Via a solution involving the
> following, and it seems to be working for us well:
> ActiveDesigner/ActiveChangeManager/ActiveCompare/A+
> White Paper:
> http://www.iraje.com/docs/ActiveSecureDesigner.htm
> 
> Take charge of the "Dom Phocs" in your org!
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:06:00 -0500  
>  
>          
>  
> 
> 
> Well, for one thing, if your developer, Dom Phoc,
> starts changing crap 
> in
> your database (as has happened to me in the past) a
> compare to the dev 
> model
> would be great because my development changes would be
> in the model, 
> not in
> the test or production databases.  In that specific
> case I had to TRUST 
> him
> (what?  trust him after what he just did?) to change
> everything back, 
> or
> restore from a backup, which would have been very time
> consuming.
> 
> I was one large ball of raging hormones that day and I
> took it all out 
> on
> him.  We don't work on the same projects anymore.
> 
> Lisa Koivu
> Oracle Database Administrator
> Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
> 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway
> Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA  33063
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Keith Peterson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:50 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject:    RE: ERD generation tool - Active
> Comparisons
> > 
> > Am I speaking to the wind ....
> > 
> > For Compares, why would you compare the MODEL with
> the
> > DATABASE...like going from US to London via Tokyo...
> > ... and you get to pay more, like... you pay not for
> > distance, but for "time in the air"... If a tool
> takes
> > longer to do something, makes more mistakes, is
> bumpy
> > and complex... you get to pay more.
> > 
> > For compares, someone tell me what beats
> > ActiveCompare:
> > http://www.iraje.com/compare-diff.htm
> > 
> > http://www.iraje.com/ActiveCompare_viewlet.html
> > 
> > 
> > ...and I will switch my tool.
> > 
> > Keith
> 
> 
> 
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