>>>Once my application is installed and running at a customer site, what is the best way to handle changes to the .dbc?
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>>>1. Adding new tables or views
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>>>2. Modifying/adding/deleting fields in a table or view
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>>>Thanks in advance for all thoughts and suggestions.
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>>>Mat
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>>Take a look at StoneField Database Toolkit... it has a feature that allows you to ship a new .DBC and meta data and then you call the UPDATE() function and the tables will be updated as needed.
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>>www.stonefield.com
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>>BOb
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>I too am using Stonefield, and highly recommend it. That's ALL I bought it for, although it will do a lot of other things.
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>It is easy to integrate into an existing app - that's what I did. It makes like easy. You send the SDT meta-tables and the DBC to your clients, and it will update everything. It is quite powerful, and not at all hard to learn.
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>In my app, at startup, I have it check if updates are needed, and then it will apply them automatically.
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>If you go this route, E-mail me and I can give you some tips and maybe some sample code.

Count me as another very satisfied SDT customer; it's a wonderful tool both during development, and at runtime, as a set of classes you can incorporate into your applications and distribute royalty-free. And it comes with full source.

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>larry