DEVOPSdigest

Quest Software announced the upcoming release of Toad DevOps Toolkit - a new product offering designed to help organizations automate database changes within their existing DevOps continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) processes.

With the Toad DevOps Toolkit, developers and DBAs can quickly and easily automate many of the critical database development functions within existing DevOps workflows without compromising quality, performance or reliability.

The new release of Toad for Oracle 2017 R2 will accompany the Toad DevOps Toolkit when it debuts next month.

The Toad DevOps Toolkit breaks down the common barriers associated with deploying database changes alongside application changes in the DevOps workflow by integrating those changes with the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery aspects of DevOps processes.

With the Toolkit, Oracle database developers and DBAs can:

- Test PL/SQL against pre-defined requirements. The Code Tester feature helps test functionality of code to ensure quality during the automated build process and through continuous integration and deployment.

- Perform static code reviews to ensure quality standards and maintainability. Code Analysis provides an automated way to determine minimum quality level threshold during code reviews to relieve the challenges associated with reviewing coding standards.

- Compare and sync between source and target databases and generate sync scripts. Ensures schema, data and database integrity when deploying changes across database types -- for example, from developer databases to quality assurance databases -- and generates change scripts to deploy build artifacts into the DevOps pipeline.

- Promote build artifacts into target environment to visualize success/failure. Script execution simplifies the process of implementing changes.

- Integrate into virtually any continuous integration and continuous delivery tool: The Toad DevOps Toolkit is easily integrated into popular tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo and Maven.

The latest version of Quest’s Toad for Oracle database development and management toolset also includes several enhancements that support the streamlining of database changes in DevOps workflows.

Notable new features in Toad for Oracle 2017 R2 include: Pass/fail status notifications within the Code Analysis code reviews to ensure code quality; redesigned multi-schema compare and sync includes with- or without-snapshots options to increase productivity; and an improved REST API as part of the Benchmark Factory testing solution helps automate performance testing as part of CI/CD workflows.

Generally available later this year, Quest SharePlex 9.1 features a new GUI that allows DBAs to easily and quickly set up and synchronize data from Oracle to Oracle databases with near-zero impact to business. Oracle DBAs can minimize adoption time and enable all-the-time uptime by eliminating command line interfaces to start data replication projects faster, and take advantage of simple workflows that minimize risk and downtime associated with migrations and upgrades.

“The growth of hybrid environments and the adoption of DevOps practices are just two trends within the IT organization that are changing the worlds of the database developer and the DBA as they know it,” said Greg Davoll, Executive Director, Product Management and Marketing for Quest Database Management Solutions. “The DBA and developer need easy-to-use and reliable world-class solutions that help them navigate these trends and empower them to play an active role in the growth of their business. The products we’ve announced today -- Toad DevOps Toolkit, Toad Oracle 2017 R2 and SharePlex v9.1 -- are designed to do just that.”

Toad DevOps Toolkit will be generally available next month.

Toad for Oracle 2017 R2 will be generally available next month.

SharePlex 9.1 will be generally available later this year.