SIMS patch woes

[MrWu]

Hi all

 

Do you find doing multiple patches in SIMS a pain? I understand through DBUpgrade and SOLUS 3 a auto backup is applied .. when doing mutliple patches its a pain since it backs up the database mutilple times when I have already done a full backup (my school has a large DB due to using inTouch)

 

I've been told that its mandatory routine but it would be nice to have an option not to auto backup...

[nicholab]

Yes it is a pain if you want to apply a patch and you need a certain database version. You might have the upgrade in the solus3 update schedule but the patch does schedule.

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

There is a tick box when deploying patches through SOLUS3 to delete the backup after a successful deployment.

[MrWu]

There is a tick box when deploying patches through SOLUS3 to delete the backup after a successful deployment.

 

Is there a way in Solus3 or DBupgrade to not do a backup before deployment ? Thinking about it though I think they do this so it can roll back if the patch goes wrong ... takes a long time when I have 5 patches to put through though ...

[Esteban_Child_of_the_Sun]

If you run DBupgrade from a command prompt you can add the /? parameter to it which will give you all the possible parameters, one of them is to not do a backup.

[MrWu]

If you run DBupgrade from a command prompt you can add the /? parameter to it which will give you all the possible parameters, one of them is to not do a backup.

Thank you , thats useful to know!