Is there a way to store all timestamps and details of modifications of fields in a table automatically in Filemaker Pro 13? ie is there an easy option somewhere that Filemaker provides, or must I do this programmatically / manually?
Ray Cologon, PhD and allround FileMaker superstar, wrote a custom function that works well for us. It is free to use, but you must have a copy of FileMaker Pro Advanced to install the custom function.
http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demosX/demoX01.html
FileMaker does not provide a ready-to-go method of audit logging. However, there are a few decent options. Linear Blue provides fmDataGuard and SyncDek just for this purpose, and does a very nice job. (SyncDek is great for [and requires] FileMaker Server; fmDataguard is great for standalone databases and small server deployments.)
Nightwing's solution is clever and hooks up very similarly to fmDataGuard, but I think fmDataGuard is more robust.
All of these audit logging solutions have a critical limitation. You cannot log deletions as a [Full Access] user. If this is critical for your application, SyncDek is the only solution that offers a work-around in the latest versions: record change polling.
There is a final possibility that might be worth considering for some applications. Databases like MySQL have audit log plugins without the permissions limitations of FileMaker. You can connect FileMaker to one or more MySQL databases and use their tables more-or-less like native FileMaker tables. With the MySQL audit log plugin, you can get your audit logging and use FileMaker for your UI.
You can do this programmatically. But with the help of MBS Plugin you can achieve this easily.
Here is the documentation link
Example :
MBS( "Audit.Changed"; timestamp; TableName { ; FieldsToIgnore } )
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Am need of your suggestion for scenario below :
one of our clients has 8 postgres DB servers used as OLTP and now wants to generate MIS reports/dashboards integrating all the data in the servers.
- There are around 100 reports to be generated
- There would be around 50k rows added to each of these databases
- the reports are to be generated for once every month
- they are running all there setup in baremetals
- they don't want to use hadoop/spark , since they think the maintainabilty will be higher
- they want to use opensource tech to accomplish this task
with all said above, one approach would be to write scripts to bring aggregated data into one server
and then manually code the reports with frontend javascript.
is there any better approach using ETL tools like Talend,Pentaho etc.
which ETL tool would be best suited for this ?
community editions of any ETL tool would suffice the above requirement..?
I know for the fact that the commercial offering of any of the ETL tools will not be in the budget.
could you please let me know your views on this.
Thanks in Advance
Deepak
Sure Yes. I did similar things successfully a dozen time in my life.
My suggestion is to use Pentaho-Data-Integrator (or Talend) to collect the data in one place and then filter, aggregate and format the data. The data volume is not an issue as long as you have a decent server.
For the reports, I suggest to produce them with Pentaho-Report-Designer so that they can be send by mail (with Pentaho-DI) or distributed with a Pentaho-BI-server.
You can also make javascript front end with Pentaho-CDE.
All of these tools are mature, robust, easy to use, have a community edition and well supported by the community.
I want to create table automatically using new table option in oracle SQL developer,but that option is disabled in my tool.
Can any one please help me out in this issue.
Please find the below image highlighted with red mark for your better understanding.
Thanks in advance.
To quote Jeff Smitth:
SQL Developer is built by Oracle, for Oracle. It’s the database IDE.
...
But, SQL Developer is also ... a 3rd party database migration platform.
...
Since we support migrations from these other database platforms, wouldn’t it be neat if SQL Developer could connect and query those 3rd party databases too? Surprise, surprise – that’s exactly what we DO do today.
What ‘Support’ means
You can connect to, browse, and query (SELECTs only) SQL Server, DB2, Access, MySQL, and Teradata.
What ‘Support’ does NOT mean
providing debuggers
delivering database administration features
write access to the database
Sound a little harsh or spartan? Going much further in any of these areas would just open a big ole can of worms, and we’re committed to providing an optimal experience for the Oracle database. But, since we already support these limited features, there’s no real reason to hide it.
That post is from 2012, but as far as I'm aware is still mostly true.
Since creating tables would count as write access and a DBA feature, it isn't a matter of enabling the option for your MySQL database, it isn't supported. This is an area of functionality that only applies to Oracle databases. (Even though Oracle Corp. owns MySQL... this means the Oracle RDBMS).
Any good advice on what tools to use to monitor a DB2 database? I have used the db2top command but was wondering if there are more verbose tools out there. Our DB is running on Linux64
As tools, you can use the memory tracker db2mtrk, Problem determination db2pd. But also you can use many other things, such as:
function tables
administrative views
get snapshot
create and active event monitors.
It really depends on what you are goin to do.
Also, the IBM Optim Performance Expert is a good tool to find bttlenecks or issues in the Database. Also the DBI panther brother. And finally the Data Studio Web Console is a basic tool to monitor few elements.
What do you want to monitor? probably with the help of a cron that executes a script you can do many things.
Hi i have configured the basics of cruise control to make releases, and automated nunit test using just MSBuild. Now i'm wondering if is possible to deploy/versioning databases with this?
I'm a beginner at CCNet .So if is possible some suggestions or tutorials (if there are) . Also if someone knows a free tool for database deployment/versioning let me know.. i will be grateful.
Thanks in advance
Hugh
It isn't free but SQL Source Control from RedGate can do what you're looking for, assuming it's a SQL Server database. It has a commandline interface that you can use in CCNet tasks. The easy approach of just migrating up is... easy, the changes are applied to your database schema / data. There was an issue with v2x of the tool that they've overcome with 3, which is that if you were to rename a table column then it would delete the column and create a new one with the right name. Obviously that's quite a big problem if you've got data you want to keep, so with v3 there's the concept of migrations and this allows you to specify alter scripts so instead of dropping the column you could script the change non-destructively.
As far as I know, at this time, they don't have anything that allows you to roll back your version.
Otherwise you could take a look at database migration tools, there seemed to be some promise for these in .Net at least. There is also this post that has some other tools (again for .net) and then there's this https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=database+migration+tool which is not restricted to any language but is general database migrations
If you're still looking for ways to version and migrate databases, one such tool is dbdeploy.net . I've hosted it on github after forking it and doing some work. Latest version is fully up to date and has some interesting features (done by someone who also uses it and sent a pull request).
I have found a lot of topics about stress-testing web application.
My goals are different, it's to test only database (sybase sql anywhere 9).
What I need:
Some tool to give a diagnostic of all sqls and find a bottleneck. I wish I could macro-view the entire system easily.
Best practices to design/build a good sql queries.
The system issues are:
20GB database size.
2-5 request per second
Thousands sql spread in the code (this messy can be solved only rewriting the system).
The quickest way would actually be to upgrade your SQL Anywhere to v10 or (better) v11, as the latest releases include a complete performance diagnostic toolset. See the documentation here for more details.
several open source tools are listed here:
http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php