Re: Database setup

2003-09-22 Thread Leo Lapworth
I did something ages ago to convert an XML formatted file into the relevant SQL (was for postgress and I got it working for MySQL once as well). The nice thing was it also spat out the HTML documentation for the table as well. http://leo.cuckoo.org/projects/xml_db_schema/ It's very rough and I wo

Re: Database setup

2003-09-18 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 17 Sep 2003, Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? I just write the SQL in text files and run them through the > database's built in client. I don't want the hassle of having to work out where to install these text files. Kake

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Wardley
Kate L Pugh wrote: > So you're starting a new project, and you've designed a database > schema, and you want to write some code to set up the tables in the > database. I use a template to generate the setup script for me. A

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:51:28PM +0100, alex wrote: > I know it isn't exactly what you want - it being java and not perl, but it > might help. I can't remember if anyone directed me to a perl version. Seems like it went through the typical sourceforge lifecycle. Mailing list post: http://www

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread alex
At 14:10 17/09/03, Kate L Pugh wrote: Now I hate doing things over and over again. I just found myself copying and pasting this code for the second time this month, and it makes me feel dirty. Surely there is a simple module on CPAN that I can pass a big pile of CREATE TABLE statements to, and it

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:46:16PM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote: >[Kake] >> So you write the following module: >Really? I just write the SQL in text files and run them through the >database's built in client. I write the table definitions in a different format and run them through a converter t

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Jonathan Peterson
> So you're starting a new project, and you've designed a database > schema, and you want to write some code to set up the tables in the > database. You know this won't be a one-off, since you'll want to > initialise a test database every time you run your tests, plus you > plan to deploy your app

Re: Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:10:49PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: > Now I hate doing things over and over again. I just found myself > copying and pasting this code for the second time this month, and it > makes me feel dirty. Surely there is a simple module on CPAN that I > can pass a big pile of CRE

Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
So you're starting a new project, and you've designed a database schema, and you want to write some code to set up the tables in the database. You know this won't be a one-off, since you'll want to initialise a test database every time you run your tests, plus you plan to deploy your application i