I'm experiencing some strange behavior when I use the Quick Export - File function in Toad Datapoint, to export the result of a large sql Oracle query to Excel. Using TOAD Datapoint 4.3 (I know it's not the latest version, but this is what my employer provides).
Has anyone else experienced this?
I see 2 background processes: Writing Data, and Exporting Data. The Writing Data process completes pretty quickly and the progress bar advances. But the Exporting Data process just sits there with no progress, sometimes for 30-45 minutes. Then, for no particular reason that I'm aware of I get a message that the export is complete. Even before that happens, I can see the exported file in Windows Explorer.
So basically 2 questions:
1) Why does this happen, and how can I make it stop?
2) Once the "Writing Data" process completes, is it OK to open the Excel, or will it somehow be incomplete or get corrupted if I don't wait for the Exporting Data process to complete?
Note, I usually just copy and paste from the results grid into Excel whenever possible, but for large data sets I sometimes have to use the Export function.
Thanks in advance!
Well, I still don't know why it happens, but I guess it's specific to my environment.
Anyway, I have a pretty good workaround. Instead of exporting to excel, I export to CSV, then import the results into an excel workbook. The "Writing Data" process completes immediately that way, and the whole thing is much faster.
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In UiPath, I use Copy Sheet to bring a sheet with all the formats to another excel. Now I use Copy Paste Range for a range like A:I. This simply freezes, no error, execution seems to continue but nothing happens after several minutes of waiting (it should continue with another copy paste of about similar size to different sheet for what it’s worth). Memory and CPU are not maxed out. Once I stop the bot, I have to end the excel application from task manager to edit the excel.
Read Range and Write Range are not used because, I need the format to be maintained.
Alright, so, I'm working on a script to execute some commands in an MMC Snapin, and I'm not very experienced with doing this kind of scripting, but i've made a lot of progress...the problem I am having, is if I create a new object every time the script runs, it will massively delay my overall script while the snapin and everything in it loads(which can take as long as five minutes). If it could load the snapin content once and then just take control of it as needed, and only create a new object IF there's not one open already, I'll save a massive amount of time when I run the script sometimes 100 times in a day.
The problem is, I'm not entirely certain how to achieve this. I thought, after some research, that it would be GetObject, but when I do
Dim objMMC
Set objMMC = GetObject("", "MMC20.Application")
It seems to create a new mmc window with no snapins loaded, rather than get the existing one with snapins loaded that I want.
Any advice? Am I just totally off base here, using completely the wrong command, or is there some simple change that I can make to fix this?
Edit:
Is there some weird workaround way I could achieve this, like storing an object to a temporary file so i can at least reuse it through a single session.
I'm in a weird situation where I am trying to add functionality to a powershell script and couldn't find a way to do it directly in powershell, so i'm setting up a vbscript to do one piece of it and calling the vbscript from powershell. I already had to do a lot of research to figure out how to do it in vbscript(and i'm still not sure about all of it) so i guess before i go any further, I'll try to figure out if this is even viable(in vbscript or c# or c++ or any other language someone could suggest)...
What i want to do, overall, is check if an MMC window is open that contains a DHCP snapin. If so, assign it to a variable. If not, create one.
Then it will read from a csv or txt file, and use the values to determine what node to navigate to within the snapin(DHCP>ServerName>IPv4>ScopeName>Scope Options).(I've mostly solved this part in vbscript, but don't know how to do it in C++ or C#)
Finally, I need to be able to execute a right-click menu item to "configure options", navigate the tabs of the popup that comes up, enter a value, and apply the changes/hit ok to close the popup. Worst case, If I can't do it "normally" by actually sending commands to the objects themselves, this part I can do with imitating keystrokes, but i don't want to do that if it's avoidable because it's sloppy.
Then, I basically will just need to somehow alert the powershell script that i'm "finished" so it can continue, or give an alert if there's an error.
I'm not asking anyone to walk me through all this, I just want to know if any of those steps aren't viable as i've described them, especially if I'm going to have to switch to c++ or c# to achieve the first part and therefore relearn the commands needed.
... and only create a new object IF there's not one open already ...
No, this is not possible in VBS, you need to do
Dim objMMC
Set objMMC = WScript.CreateObject("MMC20.Application")
if I create a new object every time the script runs, it will massively delay my overall script
In this case is the VBS the wrong language, you need to use C# or C++ executable.
I'm trying to automate some set of test cases which would pass inputs from one to another. For instance, if I have 5 test cases then 1st test case would pass input to 2nd - 2nd to 3rd - likewise it goes on.
And another point to be noted is that I won't perform batch execution and there will be a certain time gap between each test case.
So what I'm trying to do is like updating the outputs into some excel sheet and call them during succeeding execution. I have tried searching and tried some codes, but nothing has worked out.
So please share some idea to update excel sheet during run time which is placed in QC. Thanks!
What you're essentially saying is that you have test runs separated by some indeterminate amount of time, and you need to share data between runs. The answer is you need persisted storage of your data. You could use a database, flat file, Excel spreadsheet, or anything else that will let you programmatically write data in one run then read it in the next.
Excel spreadsheets are one such solution. You said you tried it and it did not work. That likely means that the method you used to write or read the data was incorrect, and not that there was a problem with the concept. If you provide some more specifics about exactly what you tried and where it failed, hopefully the community will be able to assist you.
I Believe you have Input Excel Sheet(s) in QC, What you can do is download the excel file from QC to local machine, store output from 1st test case to this excel sheet and upload back to QC. Which now you can use as input to next test case.
I'm running into some considerable speed bottlenecks with a Python-Matplotlib-Xcode combination. I know some immediate responses will probably ask "Why are you doing python stuff in Xcode, just man up and use vim" --> I like the organizing ability and the built in version control, it makes elements of my work easier to deal with.
Getting python to run in xcode in the first place was a bit more tricky than I had hoped, but its possible. Now I have the following scenario:
A master file, 'main.py' does all the import stuff for me and sets up some universal formatting to make all the figures (for eventual inclusion in my PhD thesis) nice and uniform. Afterwards it runs a series of execfile commands to generate whichever graphics I need. Two things I can think of right off the bat:
1) at the very beginning of main.py after I import all the normal python stuff you tend to need, I call a system script which checks whether a certain filesystem is mounted. I keep all my climate model data on there since my local hard drive is too small to deal with all of it at once. Python pauses itself and waits for the system to do its thing, but once the filesystem has been found, it keeps going. Usually this only needs to happen once in the morning when I get to work, or if the VPN server kicked me off for whatever reason. (Side question, it'd be cool to know if theres a trick to automate an VPN login to reconnect as soon as it notices its not connected)
2) I'm not sure how much xcode is using on its own. running the same program from terminal is (somewhat) faster. I've tried to be memory conscience and turn off stuff I don't need while running the python/xcode combination.
Also, python launches a little window whenever I call plt.show(), this in itself takes time, I've considered just saving them as quick png files and opening them with some other viewer, although I guess that would also have to somehow take time to open up. Given how often these graphics change as I add model runs or think of nicer ways of displaying the data, it'd be nice to not waste something on the order of 15 to 30 minutes (possibly more) out of the entire day twiddling my thumbs and waiting for a window to pop up.
Benchmark it!
import datetime
start = datetime.datetime.now()
# your plotting code
td = datetime.datetime.now() - start
print td.total_seconds() # requires python version >= 2.7
Run it in xcode and from the command line, see what the difference is.
I am using JMeter and have 2 questions (I have read the FAQ + Wiki etc):
I use the Graph Results listener. It seems to have a fixed span, e.g. 2 hours (just guessing - this is not indicated anywhere AFAIK), after which it wraps around and starts drawing on same canvas from the left again. Hence after a long weekend run it only shows the results of last 2 hours. Can I configure that span or other properties (beyond the check boxes I see on the Graph Results listener itself)?
Can I save the results of a run and later open them? I know I can save the test plan or parts of it. I am unclear if I can save separately just the test results data, and later open them and perform comparisons etc. And furthermore can I open them with different listeners even if they weren't part of original test (i.e. I think of the test as accumulating data, and later on I want to view and interpret the data using different "viewers").
Thanks,
-- Shaul
Don't know about 1. Regarding 2: listeners typically have a configuration field for "Write All Data to a File", which lets you specify the file name. You can use the Simple Data Writer to store results efficiently for later analysis.
You can load results from a previous test into a visualizer by choosing "Write All Data to a File" and browsing for the file you wish to load. Somewhat counterintuitively, selecting a file for writing also loads that file into the visualizer and displays the results. Just make sure you don't run the test again while that file is selected, otherwise you will lose your saved test data. :-)
Well, I later found a JMeter group that was discussing the issue raised in my first question, and B.Ramann gave me an excellent suggestion to use instead a better graph found here.
-- Shaul