[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-2401?page=com.atlassian.jira.plu... ] Ramesh Reddy commented on TEIIDDES-2401: ---------------------------------------- I think you are missing the point, the artifact can be a file,database, a git repo or combination of all. There is no such thing single artifact to export in Teiid. A Dynamic VDB is deployment file that represents all these metadata repos in its XML. One of the repo types *is* in-lining the DDL, but that is not the only type. Think Dynamic VDB as configuration file, rather than source of metadata. What is actually running is what a *user* deployed. If user does not have copy of what deployed, then that is not an issue Teiid should set out solve. Thus the we are talking about using metadata repositories and versioning of those repositories during the development time, so that user has an accurate note of what has been deployed what has changed etc. We want to develop above mentioned Metadata repository in Teiid, once this is available may that be Modeshape or Git or RDBMS -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.11#6341)