Your source is maintained in an industrial strength database with full transactional integrity. There is NO NEED for DATABASE ADMINISTRATION. Most SCM tools use simple flat files in which to store your source and versioning information, this leads to very limited scalability situations and is complicated by security and other file system related problems.
	Your source can be in any format you want, be it text, binary, graphics or web pages to name but a few.
	Of course, since most source code is text there are some features specific to enhancing text file development processes -
	i. A full featured graphical editor with instant file version selection. ii. A color-enhanced, side-by-side difference viewer. iii. Side-by-side difference viewer can also be operated in an "assisted merge" mode to aid merging 2 versions of code together.
	Complete set of source code management utilities including:
	Check in
	Common (Across branches)
	Uncommon (Main line)
	Check out
	Read-only
	Edit common(top version)
	Edit uncommon(branching)
	Recommon (branch merging)
	Merge (branch reconciliation without branch termination)
	Complete set of release management tools including
	i. Change Requests (CR) (for issue tracking) ii. Tight correlation between CRs and the files that are edited under them. iii. Releases - map to a list of CRs and therefore to a set of specific file versions. iv. Generics - A branch in the source where customizations have had to be performed off of the main development track.
	Complete set of reports for both the developers and the managers. Some examples include
	Report on CRs currently assigned to a user
	Report on CRs assigned to a release
	Report of all CRs assigned to a user within specified date
	List all CRs created by a user for a given date range
	Report all assigned CRs by state, severity and/or date
	Report all CRs currently outstanding
	Report all CRs currently outstanding at specified severity
	Report all files currently checked out for edit by a user
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