>>If I could find a tool to handle that more efficiently, It would interest me.
I used to use Xcase for that. Import your table structure and views then make your changes in the model and it gives you scripts to update SQL Server, Oracle, dbfs etc.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1