Rational® ClearQuest® administrators
create and manage five different types of databases:
- Vendor databases are used in Rational ClearQuest documentation
to point to supported enterprise databases. An empty vendor database container
is required for each Rational ClearQuest database,
whether it is a schema repository, user, sample or test database.
- Schema repositories, also referred to as master databases, are used to
store and manage a group of schemas including all versions of those schemas,
and their associated user databases. They do not contain user data. Schema
repositories can store multiple schemas and multiple versions of each schema.
- User databases, also referred to as a production databases, store and
manage information about change requests. A user database is always associated
with a schema repository where the schema for this user database is stored.
The association between the schema repository and user databases is referred
to as a database set.
- Sample databases are working user databases that provide 40 sample defect
records of user information, as well as sample queries and reports. You can
use the sample database for testing and experimenting when creating your first
schemas.
- Test databases are temporary user databases that you create when you are
developing a new schema or a new version of an existing schema. You can use
a test database to verify that the new schema performs as expected, without
risking any damage to production data in a user database. For more information
about test databases, see Working with ClearQuest schemas .