Muthu Annamalai wrote:

>
> After my application is shipped to customers, if I change the
> database file, let us say added some new stored procedures , how can
> I update customer db.
> Practically I have to extract data from customer db and insert into
> new db,if it is so, can anyone give some idea how to do data extract
> in a better way.

I believe the common procedure is either to send a script to the customer
who will run he script to update the metadata, or include the necessary
update statements in a new version of your app so that your app does the
updating more or less autimatically.

There has been some discussion of this some time ago - search the archives.


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Aage J.