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Re:Getting Your DBA Teams Scripts into Git by cafard on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:05PM (#40868509)
I am reasonably confident that Oracle keeps its code under source control, but the PL/SQL packages it supplied start with a lot of this. The package WWV_FLOW, central to the APEX/ORDS product has more than 500 lines like

  --    MODIFIED   (MM/DD/YYYY)
  --      mhichwa   08/04/1999 - Created
  --      mhichwa   09/30/1999 - Removed g_show_reset global
  --      mhichwa   10/09/1999 - Added g_last_query_text global for error reporting
  --      mhichwa   10/09/1999 - Removed g_success_procedure, g_success_url
  --      mhichwa   10/09/1999 - Removed g_step_sub_title_font_color   --
  --      mhichwa   10/14/1999 - Added 10 extra inputs v26 ... v35
Re:Getting Your DBA Teams Scripts into Git by hobs on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:08PM (#40875962)
Thanks for the good laugh, but yeah, the time before source control is not that far behind some of us.