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Originally Posted by cflsystems
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Steve, did you follow my personal thread (rant) on my 4.5.4 to 4.5.5 process?
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=66211
I too am wondering about the final database patch - since for a store that is active and can't shut down the store for more than a few minutes, the professional development method is to upgrade into a dev directory for configuration and testing, right? This process can take hours or days (or God forbid, weeks). AT some point, the dev store is (hopefully) ready for production, so a final "upgrade the production database to 4.5.5" must happen. It must happen in a few moments, with no risk of errors. This final database upgrade must be tested on a clone.
Until the "new and improved" upgrade method was introduced for this 4.5.5 version, we "simply" ran the patch.sql and that was that.
WHO WAS THE ROCKET SCIENTIST that thought this was a good idea?
Has X-Cart been taken over by aliens?
Where are the engineers that made reasonably good choices for most procedures over the years?
Did all the smart guys go to Lite Commerce?
Seriously, how will I do the final "apply the sql patch" to the production database at the last moment before taking the 4.5.5 store live?