On 4 Mar 2002 at 8:10, Janning Vygen wrote:
> So i am saving the schema version inside the databse. Is it a good
> idea? or is it nonsens and there is a much better way how to do it?
I have a system table. One of the fields is the database version. If I
change the schema, I modify the version. The applications knows what
version it can run with. If it finds an older version, it reports this ot
the user and suggests they upgrade their database.
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Dan Langille
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