ChkDB

Open Source Rule-Based Data Checking

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Contributing to the ChkDB Project This is an Open Source project; contributions of all sorts are welcome. Domains, Rule-Sets and Rules Contributions to Rules and Rule-Sets can take the form of: Providing or describing valuable new rules (including special-case versions of existing rules) Pointing out problems with existing rules Pointing out where a rule-set would be more valuable if it were split in two Providing new rule-sets Defining new data domains A person contributing a new rule-set has the option of managing it - having the final say on its rules. A person contributing a new domain has the option of managing it - having final say on the defined tables and views. Software Contributions to Software can take the form of: Pointing out bugs or places where things could have been done better Providing fixes or alternate code Providing new utilities, nice GUIs or other software Providing or working on the development of implementations of the ChkDB software for different database platforms Doing Testing A person contributing new software has the option of managing the software - having final say on its development. ChkDB Needs a GUI Front-End ChkDB really needs a GUI front-end, an application to... review domains and rule-sets, and change the ACTIVE_YN flags, run checks on one or more tables (by calling a procedure in a PL/SQL package), delete domains and rule-sets (by calling procedures in a PL/SQL package), export and import domains and rule-sets as XML files, define new domains and rule-sets. A simple application that provided just the first two items would be a big step forward at this point.