Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:01:55PM +0700, David Garamond wrote: > Sven K?hler wrote: > >I was very disappointed by Interbase/Firebird. It seemed to me like a > >MS-Access: a database-engine that works on regular files > > Firebird seems simple, but it doesn't mean it's inferior or > [intentional

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread David Garamond
Sven Köhler wrote: I was very disappointed by Interbase/Firebird. It seemed to me like a MS-Access: a database-engine that works on regular files Firebird seems simple, but it doesn't mean it's inferior or [intentionally] crippled like MS-Access. SQL server also works on "regular files" (db is s

RE: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Apfelbaum
James If you are also looking at non-Open Source DB's, I'd recommend you look at Oracle. I've used it on Linux for e-commerce and it is solid as a rock. Jerry - Jerry, I too am evaluating databases for an Open Source project of mine and I have MySQL, MaxDB and PostgreSQL on my system (the

AutoBackup Tools

2003-12-15 Thread ali
Hi All, Can anyone tell me, where I can find auto backup tools for SAPDB that running on Windows... Thanks, -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SAPDB/MaxDB on RedHat 9 ??

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Apfelbaum
Thank you very much, Simon. Your scripts did the trick and now SAPDB/MaxDB works just fine on RedHat 9!! (I had to rename your sapdb.sysconfig-1.0.7 script to sapdb.init-1.0.7 when copying it to /etc/sysconfig.) Because I was trying to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL before without success, I looked at you

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:11:21AM +1100, Chris Nolan wrote: > > To backup those funky sleek MyISAM tables, you could just issue a > LOCK TABLE statement or two (LOCK DATABASE?), do a FLUSH and copy > the files. If I recall correctly, (and I'm sure sirs DuBois and > Zawodny will find out where I

Re: SAP DB -24988 sql error

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Salviski, Michael wrote: Has anyone gotten the error "An error occurs by installing database 'CPD'! -24988 sql error [util_execute INIT CONFIG]; -2008,Message not available" when trying to create the first instance after installing SAP DB? This happens quite often if you choose too small a data vo

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Dittmar
frengo wrote: What do you mean about dropped LGPL licence ? If I understood well, on the website, MaxDb is STILL under GPL. Isn't it With SAP DB, the kernel was licenced under the GPL and the client libraries under the LGPL. With MaxDB, everything is licenced under the GPL (or the MySQL ccommerc

Re: Build SAPDB-ODBC Driver for windows

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Thorsten Mauch wrote: Hi I want to build the SAP-ODBC driver for windows. Unfortunatly is part of the entire server src. I read the sources readme but it seems it basicly refer to linux. Does anyone build the SAPDB udner windows ? or is a howto availble ? e.g. what compiler or tools (beside pytho

Re: ODBC-Problem with lowercase table names

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Thorsten Mauch wrote: Hi all I use sapdb 7.4.30 with the current ODBC driver. I transferred a MSSQL database to SQLDB using the MS Transfer manger. I found that all table names are created in lowercase. Following ODBC queries seek for the uppercase tables, so a table not found exception is thrown.

SAP DB -24988 sql error

2003-12-15 Thread Salviski, Michael
Has anyone gotten the error "An error occurs by installing database 'CPD'! -24988 sql error [util_execute INIT CONFIG]; -2008,Message not available" when trying to create the first instance after installing SAP DB? Thanks in Advance, Mike -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http:

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Nolan
Curtis Maurand wrote: Matthew Stanfield said: Hi, Usually, i'll use "enum('0','1')" in place of a boolean type. Curtis [snip] For JDBC stuff, I've found that if you really want to call this a shortcoming, then that's about as far as you can take it - the MySQL JDBC driver makes the B

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Nolan
Hi, Regarding backups, mysqlhotcopy locks all MyISAM tables named for backup before copying the files. As a result, they are in a consistant state. InnoDB and BDB tables need to be handled differently though, so you're looking at 1 of 4 methods: 1. Shut the database down and copy the table spa

RE: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread james.bannon
I thought that too. It definitely says that its distributed under the GPL on the web site. This was one the reasons I downloaded it! Best Regards, James Bannon (When in doubt, try honesty!) -Original Message- From: frengo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2003 22:33 To: [EMAI

Build SAPDB-ODBC Driver for windows

2003-12-15 Thread Thorsten Mauch
Hi I want to build the SAP-ODBC driver for windows. Unfortunatly is part of the entire server src. I read the sources readme but it seems it basicly refer to linux. Does anyone build the SAPDB udner windows ? or is a howto availble ? e.g. what compiler or tools (beside python and perl) are needed

ODBC-Problem with lowercase table names

2003-12-15 Thread Thorsten Mauch
Hi all I use sapdb 7.4.30 with the current ODBC driver. I transferred a MSSQL database to SQLDB using the MS Transfer manger. I found that all table names are created in lowercase. Following ODBC queries seek for the uppercase tables, so a table not found exception is thrown. Can i adjust the ODBC

RE: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread frengo
What do you mean about dropped LGPL licence ? If I understood well, on the website, MaxDb is STILL under GPL. Isn't it ? frengo -Original Message- From: Juergen Sauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunedì 15 dicembre 2003 15.45 To: Jerry Apfelbaum; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: AW: DB Full - Crash on startup

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Here's the latest - still no luck.. --- dbmcli on nms2>db_state OK State ADMIN --- dbmcli on nms2>param_startsession OK --- dbmcli on nms2>db_addvolume DATA c:\netvoyant\db\nms2\datadev02 F 64 ERR -24974,ERR_XPSESSION: param session active dbmcli on nms2>db_stop ERR -24994,ERR_RTE: runtime env

Make error with SAP DB and unixODBC drivers

2003-12-15 Thread John Lynchehaun
Hi, I have attempted to install the SAP DB v7.4 drivers on one of our systems, but encountered errors in the sqltypes.h file. System: Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110 gcc 2.96 Perl v5.6.1 Other components installed: DBI-1.38 DBD-ODBC-1.06 unixODBC-2.2.7 The errors were encountered with both of the

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Matthew Stanfield
Hi, I've used both PostgreSQL and MySQL on a Linux server and found both setting up (using RPM) and maintaining them very easy (MySQL was slightly easier to set up but I set it up after I was already proficient on PostgreSQL, so perhaps comparing the ease of setup is unfair). Both are well doc

Re: JDBC Driver getDouble BUG

2003-12-15 Thread Clóvis Wichoski
Hello Alexander, The JDK version is 1.4.1_02 but the same thing occurs with 1.4.2_02. The results of getBigDecimal().doubleValue() is 5.225. I created a test with gets String, Double and BigDecimal from that field, and generated two traces from JDBC driver, the first is with my old driver the la

Re: Question on repmcli

2003-12-15 Thread Albert Steckenborn
Hi, i think this will work, DATALOAD TABLE s_entitytype ETTID 1 NULL IF POS 1 ='' INFILE 'dat\entitytype.dat' DELIMITER '' NULL '' but make shure that the value of the field is '' and not ' '. rgds. Albert Jean-Michel OLTRA schrieb: Le lundi 15 décembre

Re: Tuning Question tables (5GB) with complete reload each day

2003-12-15 Thread Albert Steckenborn
Hi Alexander, all our Applications are web-based, so there is no other application that could feed the cache. But I think when dropping table and indexes, the cache for data that belongs to that table is deleted too. So did it makes any scence to delete only the data of the table and not the

RE: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread dhay
Firebird 1.5 definitely should be one of your options. It has a very strong history, great support, and very lightweight hardware-wise while having features that match any out there. David To: "'Jerry Apfelbaum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: MySQL or M

Re: Question on repmcli

2003-12-15 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Le lundi 15 décembre 2003, Christoph Weser a écrit... bonjour, > DATALOAD TABLE s_entitytype > ETTID 1 DEFAULT NULL > INFILE 'dat\entitytype.dat' > DELIMITER '' > NULL '' > Missing data for specified column ETTID" > Is this a bug or a feature? If it is a

RE: JDBC Driver getDouble BUG

2003-12-15 Thread Schroeder, Alexander
Hello Clóvis, Could you manage to make a vtrace from that situation, and could you specify which platform (JDK and version) you use? (see http://sapdb.2scale.net/moin.cgi/TroubleShooting) Could you also try a getBigDecimal(), on this a 'doubleValue()' and check the result? (This is basically wha

RE: Tuning Question tables (5GB) with complete reload each day

2003-12-15 Thread Schroeder, Alexander
Hello, it looks to me like the 1st query did not hit the data cache, and was punished with lots of data I/O. All following queries possibly then feed from the cache to a certain extend and need not to access the hard disk too often. As dropping, loading, and backup already takes some time, and i

new odbc driver? or old 7.05.00.00

2003-12-15 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
hi list, the named odbc on http://www.mysql.com/maxdb is the version 7.05.00.00 with the following bugs. (named earlier in the list. now i made one list :) - doesn't work on windows nt4 - in software under control it is named odbc 7.5 (instead of maxdb odbc 7.5) (btw: this happened also to sqls

Question on repmcli

2003-12-15 Thread Christoph Weser
Hello everyone. I'm using the following statement to load data into a table using the repmcli: DATALOAD TABLE s_entitytype ETTID 1 DEFAULT NULL INFILE 'dat\entitytype.dat' DELIMITER '' NULL '' The table is: create table s_entitytype ( ETTID FIXED(3

Tuning Question tables (5GB) with complete reload each day

2003-12-15 Thread Albert Steckenborn
Hi folks, of course somebody could give me a hint for my questions. We are running some applications with tables up to 5GB with SAPDB 7.4 on Linux. Each day we are getting the whole data again in partial steps (with size from 0,1 GB to 1,5 GB) at different times. At the Moment we are dropping

RE: SAP DBTech JDBC problem Column index 1 was not found

2003-12-15 Thread Schroeder, Alexander
Hello Mario, could you manage to get a JDBC trace? Is the database instance for the working case running on W2K too, and for the errornous case on Linux? If yes, could you manage to create a vtrace? (see http://sapdb.2scale.net/moin.cgi/TroubleShooting on how to create the various traces.) Re

JDBC Driver getDouble BUG

2003-12-15 Thread Clóvis Wichoski
Hi, MaxDB Team I'm using SapDB 7.3 with latest JDBC driver and I found the follow issue: In one table I have a column of type FIXED(12,3), in one record I have the value 5.225 for this column then checking this value with: WebSQL returns 5.225 ResultSet.getString() returns 5.225 ResultSet.getDo

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread edson . richter
Already exists a project to maintain the forge of all LGPL libraries, a some development are being done creating a rebranded new SQL Studio: http://sapforge.sourceforge.net. We will start maintenance when no more LGPL libraries be avaliable. Also, we are translating messages on JDBC driver to se

SAP DBTech JDBC problem Column index 1 was not found

2003-12-15 Thread Mario Misic
Dear, I could not find that anyone have similar error. I am using SAPDB 7.3.0.40 on Red Hat Linux 8.0. My application uses last version of a JDBC driver sapdb-jdbc-bin-7.4.04.03a, I have this error: com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.exceptions.JDBCDriverException: SAP DBTech JDBC: Column index 1 was not

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Tobias Asplund
> Sven Köhler wrote: > > >> I set the isolation level to READ_REPEATABLE and use mysqldump | > >> bzip2 to get the result. I've tested the restore and it's fine! > > > > > > So how does mysqldump handle binary data? > > > > If it does embed the data into the SQL-statement somehow, that's crap, > >

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Nolan
Tobias Asplund wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: I set the isolation level to READ_REPEATABLE and use mysqldump | bzip2 to get the result. I've tested the restore and it's fine! So how does mysqldump handle binary data? If it does embed the data into the SQL-statement somehow, that's crap,

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Juergen Sauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 20:59 schrieb Jerry Apfelbaum: > Hello. > > I have been tasked with evaluating open source databases for a large > upcoming project: e-commerce, B2B, high availability. So, you should choose SapDB 7.3 or 7.4 due Licens

RE: xsql date format

2003-12-15 Thread Simenec, Thomas
> ok, but what about a tool for Sapdb ? You can use sqlcli together with SAP DB also. Thomas Simenec SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin -Original Message- From: Jean-Michel OLTRA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 15. Dezember 2003 15:24 To: MaxDb Subject: Re: xsql date format Le lundi 15 dé

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Nolan
Huh? Not know how to backup a MySQL database? *sigh* Every night, I do a backup of our MySQL database server that's holding all of our mail and various other things (20GB+). I set the isolation level to READ_REPEATABLE and use mysqldump | bzip2 to get the result. I've tested the restore and it'

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Nolan
Are they? Shoving in rows that are several meg in size didn't pose any problems. The restore procedure looked like this: bunzip2 dumpfile | mysql -u db_grunt -p projectdb May I ask where the limitation you mentioned is documented? Maybe the situations we were using it in didn't come close to th

Re: xsql date format

2003-12-15 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Le lundi 15 décembre 2003, Simenec, Thomas a écrit... bonjour, > you can find the sqlcli in the Standard Installation package for MaxDB on the mysql > homepage. > After installing, sqlcli can be found in /bin. ok, but what about a tool for Sapdb ? dbmcli displays correct date format but

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
I set the isolation level to READ_REPEATABLE and use mysqldump | bzip2 to get the result. I've tested the restore and it's fine! So how does mysqldump handle binary data? If it does embed the data into the SQL-statement somehow, that's crap, since SQL-Statements are limited in length. -- MaxDB

RE: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Joshua Thomas
> It is a mystery to me how the PostGreSQL work. I cannot recomm to use > any feature discovered in PostGreSQL since some of the more uncommon > feature are broken. Would you care to elaborate? I've used both PostgreSQL and mySQL, but certainly not all features, and I'm curious about what issues

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
PostgreSQL I rejected because I can't find a version that runs under Windows without a lot of recompiling and, presumably, a lot of hacking, but it does run well under Linux. Judging by some of the posts I've seen on the list regarding the stability of MaxDB under various versions of RedHat, it wou

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Sven Köhler
So far, it seems that MySQL, MaxDB, PostgreSQL, and Interbase/Firebird are possible candidates. Does anyone know why we should or should not use any of these? Does anyone know of other possibilities? I was very disappointed by Interbase/Firebird. It seemed to me like a MS-Access: a database-eng

RE: xsql date format

2003-12-15 Thread Simenec, Thomas
Hi, you can find the sqlcli in the Standard Installation package for MaxDB on the mysql homepage. After installing, sqlcli can be found in /bin. Thomas Simenec SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin -Original Message- From: 'Jean-Michel OLTRA' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 15. Dezember 2003

Re: xsql date format

2003-12-15 Thread 'Jean-Michel OLTRA'
Le lundi 15 décembre 2003, Simenec, Thomas a écrit... bonjour, > the xsql tool does not really support the different date/time formats listed > in the xsql help message. so you need to remove these useless help message. > For an ISO formatted date string (-MM-DD) please use our tool

RE: DBMCLI problem

2003-12-15 Thread Knappke, Christian
> C:\>D:\sapdb\DBM\DBMCli.exe help db_warn > OK The OK says: dbmcli ran without errors. The not existing help output "says": There is no help entry for "db_warn". You might consider "dbmcli help db_warm" instead. Regards Christian -- #include /* The opinions stated above are my own and not

several log questions

2003-12-15 Thread Mischa Orlowski
Hi there, at first, i am using SAPDB 7.4.3 Build 014-000-037-95 on different Linux platforms. First question: Can u please give me an example on how to create a mirrored logfile. I know to set log_mirrored to yes, but both param_addvolume(database creation) and db_addvolume (afterwards) always fa

Re: AUTOLOG OPTION on Windows 2003 Server

2003-12-15 Thread Pranas
Thank you Christian, I possibly found better solution to this problem in SAP DB user list archive. Put additional regesty entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with the value "DBMCli.exe -d -u DBM, autolog_on " Thanks for your advice, I appreciate that!

DBMCLI problem

2003-12-15 Thread Pranas
Hello, Possibly, the DBMCli.exe functionality is broken in SAP DB 7.4.3.30: C:\>D:\sapdb\DBM\DBMCli.exe help db_warn OK Expected result: Output of command help -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROT

RE: AUTOLOG OPTION on Windows 2003 Server

2003-12-15 Thread Knappke, Christian
>> I turned on autolog, but every time I restart the DB services, it is >> turned off again. That happens now for several times. I can turn on >> autolog manually with no problem. > Start the database using dbmcli, not using the services applet or 'net start'. > Currently, > only the database

Problem starting SAPDB database.

2003-12-15 Thread Maksimshin, Leonid
Hello! I'm using SapDB database v.7.4.3 Build 030-121-056-274 under Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla). I shut it down and after that it reports me error -24961 "Getting Kernel state failed: No such file or directory" (message reported from dbmcli utility). Please help me with this issue. What c

Re: AUTOLOG OPTION on Windows 2003 Server

2003-12-15 Thread Pranas
Hi again,   I found somethink related to my problem. From which verstion Bug is fixed/will be fixed? That are really practical work arounds conserning this bug?   Thanks ,   RE: Autolog turned off after restart From: Dittmar, Daniel (daniel.dittmarsap.com)Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 05:31:16 CD

SQL error instead of "DB FULL Task suspended"?

2003-12-15 Thread Torsten Nitschke geb. Hentschel
Hi, is there a way to have the client get an SQL error instead of beeing suspended when the database is full? For a specific application I need to continue even in case the database is full. But at the moment the database suspends the task serving the connection so that the SQL command blocks.

RE: xsql date format

2003-12-15 Thread Simenec, Thomas
Hi Jean-Michel, the xsql tool does not really support the different date/time formats listed in the xsql help message. For an ISO formatted date string (-MM-DD) please use our tool sqlcli. But be aware that this tool comes fresh from development and so it's an alpha version. Regards, Thomas

Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?

2003-12-15 Thread Vinod Kumar Singh
> I have only recently started these evaluations. BTW, my own background is > from the Oracle DBA world. > > MySQL is certainly popular and seems to have very good performance, but I am > concerned that the lack of Triggers, Stored Procedures, User-Defined > Functions, and Views (to a lesser deg

AUTOLOG OPTION on Windows 2003 Server

2003-12-15 Thread Pranas
Hello, Has some one capable to configure AutoLog ON option with SAP DB 7.4 on Windows 2003 Server? I am not able to get Autolog ON after server restart :-(! Should I create some additional windows service to set autolog on with configured dependences? Did somebody solve such problem? Ho

RE: Problems wirth connections

2003-12-15 Thread Schroeder, Alexander
Hello José, see a previous message at http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.general/2002-October/008942.html, especially regarding the setting of some kernel parameters for shared resources. Regards Alexander Schröder SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin > -Original Message- > From: José Rómulo

RE: How can I change volume size?

2003-12-15 Thread Schroeder, Alexander
Hello José, you cannot change a volume's size, once it is created. You may want to add an additional volume, instead. Regards Alexander Schröder SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin > -Original Message- > From: José Rómulo Elías Contreras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 200

Sapdb 7.3 database backup & restore question

2003-12-15 Thread Yusuf Gangat
Hi There, I have a SAP database ver 7.3.0.25 called P01 running on NT4 server. The server does full nightly backups. This is the main database server that all our users connect to. I have recently setup another computer running SAPDB ver 7.3.0.25 called P01 on Win2003 server, this server is to

Re: SAPDB/MaxDB on RedHat 9 ??

2003-12-15 Thread Simon Matter
> Hello > > I have been trying for a few days to get SAPDB/MaxDB working under > RedHat 9 to evaluate it for a large upcoming project. > > The Installation seems to go well but I cannot get a real database to > really start running. I've tried 7.505, 7.508 tgz's as well as 7.4 tgz > and rpm. No l