DDL Import

[mbordin]

Hello,
is it possible to import DDL into a package?
We have a DDL file, a file contains SQL infrastructural instruction (CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, CREATE INDEX ...Etc.etc) is it possible to import this file into EA like a reverse from a database instance?
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[Bellekens@localhost Geert Bellekens]

No, I'm afraid you'll first have to create the database (using the script) and then reverse engineer it from there

Geert
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[tjs]

The ability to reverse engineer DDL seems like a commonly requested feature since 2002.  As far as I can tell, the functionality does not exist within EA v11.  Instead loading an actual DBMS schema w/ DDL is required.  The ability to import DDLs is important in facilitating collaboration with DBAs and maintaining traceability and synchronization throughout the entire design stack.

• Why has it not been implemented yet?  
  
• Will it be implemented?   If so, when?
  
• Is there a way to to view the product pipeline?
  

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[qwerty]

I guess, it's the same answer like for so many other features not being implemented ever since: Sparx is not willing and/or not able. My expectations are near zero now. Basically is the same Ford T-Model  since the beginning. It now has a couple of over-paintings and a couple of new bells and whistles. But that's it. We still would drive the T-Model if no other automobile companies had developed. As long as there is no real rivaling product we will not see any real change  :(

q.
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[skiwi]

Funny you should mention this,
It is a feature I dearly need.
On the proviso that it can also be used to update a previous import
(unlike the XML import which, AFASIC, does not.

What I have been debating is whether to ask SPARX for this, or suggest it the the DBMode people who might find it a useful feature to have to sell.
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[qwerty]

Actually the DBMode people are Sparx too. Though not from Down Under but from Japan (and maybe more open to marketing a good idea). Too bad Sparx does not see the chance in opening a market place for useful add-ins. Clearly the market is not that from Apple's App Store but having some of those add-ins in a store would (even more) clearly increase the value of EA.

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