On Thu, 3 May 2001, David H. Silber wrote:
> I've also stumbled upon DBIx::DBSchema, which is supposed to help me
> extract schema information from a database.
>
> Does anyone know how Alzabo & DBIx::DBSchema compare? Or do they
> compare at all?
>
> What I need is to get the complete schema and grant information from a
> database. This should be done in as generic a manner as possible,
> because we intend to work with multiple database engines in the future.
Alzao is not intended (at least not yet) to be a tool for sysadmins.
Rather, it is a data modeller. As such, I haven't even considered trying
to store grant information or info on users and such. This may happen in
the future but I don't know when.
I think DBIx::DBSchema has most of the features Alzabo has. One cool
feature Alzabo has that DBIx::DBSchema does not is that Alzabo is able to
generate SQL 'diffs'. If you give it two schema objects it can generate
all the SQL statements necessary to turn one into the other. The two
schemas must be for the same RDBMS, however.
-dave
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