Now more than ever, the marketplace is flooded with tools that can support, automate, and/or analyze practically any aspect of your application lifecycle. Many of these tools are widely adopted and open source (read: common and free). Does common mean best-of-breed? Is stringing together free (often unsupported) open source solutions a prudent strategy for managing enterprise applications?

Should you DIY?

In this blog, Randall K. Harp, Roundtable Software Engineer, and Jaclyn Barnard, Roundtable Director of Business Development, highlight several key considerations that can help you decide if a do-it-yourself strategy is the best bet for your team.

The schema area should not be used to store application data. And, if you are getting ready to dump & load, certain schema attributes require special attention.

OpenEdge Databases & SQL

Thinking about enabling SQL access to your OpenEdge database? Read this.

This post is part of the “New DBA Series.” Check blog.wss.com/for more posts in the series and other interesting DBA blog posts.