On 15-8-2017 15:36, Kjell Rilbe kjell.ri...@marknadsinformation.se [firebird-support] wrote:
> We're in need of a tool where we can author sequences of SQL queries > against FB and non-DB commands like file operations etc. I'd like to > call them "batch runs" to perform recurring tasks. > > Do you know of such tools or what that kind of tool would be called in > general? > > We need to be able to schedule some runs. Others need to be triggered by > e.g. the appearance of a file in a local or FTP/SFTP folder. Yet others > need to be executed ad hoc, i.e. started manually. > > We also need to be able to enter conditions/checks between each step, to > check results, e.g. reasonable number of affected records, and bail out > or at least send a warning e-mail message to me if something goes wrong > or looks suspicious. Sounds like you are looking for an ETL (Extract Transform Load) tool In the past I have used Pentaho DI (also known as Kettle) (http://www.pentaho.com/ and http://community.pentaho.com/) for combining data from various sources. Note that there is an open-source - free - community-edition, but it looks like they are progressively moving to a walled-garden for support/information (or at least, making it harder to find); see http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/Latest+Pentaho+Data+Integration+%28aka+Kettle%29+Documentation for documentation It has a variety of tools: Spoon, a GUI to design a transformation or job, and Pan (transformations) or Kitchen (jobs) to execute them from the command line. However I haven't used them extensively, so I'm not sure if they are suitable for what you want. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel
