I'm pretty sure the answer is "no" but I thought I'd check.
Background:
I have some legacy data in Access, need to get it into MySQL, which will be the DB server for a Ruby application that uses this legacy data.
Data has to be processed and transformed. Access and MySQL schemas are totally different. I want to write a rake task in Ruby to do the migration.
I'm planning to use the techniques outlined in this blog post: Using Ruby and ADO to Work with Access Databases. But I could use a different technique if it solves the problem.
I'm comfortable working on Unix-like computers, such as Macs. I avoid working in Windows because it fills me with deep existential horror.
Is there a practical way that I can write and run my rake task on my Mac and have it reach across the network to the grunting Mordor that is my Windows box and delicately pluck the data out like a team of commandos rescuing a group of hostages? Or do I have to just write this and run it on Windows?
Why don't you export it from MS-Access into Excel or CSV files and then import it into a separate MySQL database? Then you can rake the new one to your heart's content.
Mac ODBC drivers that open Access databases are available for about $30.00
http://www.actualtechnologies.com/product_access.php is one. I just run access inside vmware on my mac and expore to csv/excel as CodeSlave mentioned.
ODBC might be handy in case you want to use the access database to do a more direct transfer.
Hope that helps.
I had a similar issue where I wanted to use ruby with sql server. The best solution I found was using jruby with the java jdbc drivers. I'm guessing this will work with access as well, but I don't know anything about access
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So im building app based on Express and using Prisma ORM. What i need is to SSH to a server, open up express.js console and create new db entry using prisma. Something similar to python manage.py shell for Django or rails console for Rails. Is there a solution for this of any kind?
Like I pointed in the comment there is a way ( kind of ) to get access to a running express instance. If that's all you need follow:
How can I open a console to interact with Express app?
Express doesn't exactly have a feature like rails console which is a framework feature in that case.
That said, I question the long term implication of this approach. If you really just need to seed some data, write an "init" script, and call it after you ssh into a server or using some CI/CD approach. This is more re-usable, since you can even pass a json file to the script to load dynamic data.
Also, Prismajs has an official way to seed the data ( if that's what you need) that you can leverage:
https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides/database/seed-database
UPDATE:
If you are able to run to code on your machine and point the remote database, then you can use node --inspect to debug in a chrome console. Which should give you about the same effect as a rails REPL
https://medium.com/#tbernardes/debugging-nodejs-with-chrome-inspector-devtools-1cd2ef323b5e
I have a Linux server where I start a few Ruby programs during the day. The server is directly connected to the internet (no firewall) at a hoster and I wonder, if there is a way to start and close the mySQL server just before I update the db and close it afterwards. The target is, to have the mySQL server only open when it is needed. So I thought it might be a way to activate the port or the service directly out of Ruby.
thank you for answering,
Werner
You'd probably have to change the permissions to the database through ruby, then, doing whatever you want to do, and change the permissions back.
You could do that usig the mysql gem, connecting to the database and running the commands.
Then restart the process, and do the same thing but backwards
Honestly, I don't know why you would do that, and I wouldn't recommend someone to do that. But that would be my approach
I'm attempting to write a simple Ruby/Nokogiri scraper to get event information from multiple pages and then output it to a CSV that is attached to an email sent out weekly.
I have completed the scraping components and the CSV component and it's working perfectly. However, I now realize that I need to know when new events are added, which means I need some sort of database. Ideally I would just store this locally.
I've dabbled a bit with using the ruby gem 'sequel', but the data does not seem to persist beyond the running of the program. Do I need to download some database software to work with 'sequel'? Also I'm not using the Rails framework, just Ruby.
Any and all guidance is deeply appreciated!
I'm guessing you did Sequel.sqlite, as in the first example in the Sequel README, which creates an in-memory SQLite database. To create a database in your filesystem instead of memory, just pass it a path, e.g.:
Sequel.sqlite("./my-database.db")
This is, of course, assuming that you have the sqlite3 gem installed. If the given file doesn't exist, it will be created.
This is covered in the Sequel docs.
I have a side project I'm working on currently that requires me to copy over a .csv file from a remote FTP and save it locally. I figured I would use DBMS_SCHEDULER.GET_FILE but I do not have permission. When I asked my manager, he said that I wont be able to get privileges to do this and should look up other ways.
After researching for a couple of days I keep coming back to DBMS_SCHEDULER, am I out of luck or are my searching skills terrible.
Thanks
I'm not certain you'd want to use DBMS_SCHEDULER for this; from what I understand from the documentation (never used this myself) the FTP site would have to be completely open to all; there is a parameter destination_permissions, but it's only "Reserved for future use", i.e. there's no way of specifying any permissions at the moment.
If I'm right with this then I agree with your manager, though not necessarily for the same reasons (it seems like you'll never get permission to use DBMS_SCHEDULER which I hope is incorrect).
There are other methods of doing this:
UTL_TCP; this is simply a method of interacting over a TCP/IP protocol. Oracle Base has an article, which includes a FTP package based on UTL_TCP and instructions how to use it. This also requires the use of the UTL_FILE package, which can write OS files.
UTL_HTTP; I'm 99% certain it's possible to connect to an FTP using this; it's certainly possible to connect to a SFTP/any server. It'll require a little more work but it would be worth it in the longer run. It would also require the use of UTL_FILE.
A Java stored procedure to FTP directly; this is probably the best approach; create one using one of the many Java FTP libraries.
A Java stored procedure to call call OS commands; this is easiest method but the least extensible. Oracle released a white paper on calling OS commands from within PL/SQL back in 2008 but there's plenty of other stuff out there (including Oracle Base again)
Lastly, you could question whether this is actually what you want to do...
What scheduler do you use? Does it have event driven scheduling? If so there's no need to FTP from within Oracle; use UTL_FILE to write a file to the OS and then OS commands from there.
Was the other file originally in a database? If that's the case you don't need to extract it. You could use DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER to collect it straight from the database or even create a JDBC connection or (more simply) a database link to SELECT the data directly.
I'm working on an app that uses Jena for storage (with the TDB backend). I'm looking for something like the equivalent of Squirrel, that lets me see what's being stored, run queries etc. This seems like an obvious thing to need, but my (perhaps badly phrased) google queries aren't turning up anything promising.
Any suggestions, please? I'm on XP. Even a command line tool would be helpful.
Take a look at my Store Manager tool which is part of the dotNetRDF Toolkit which I develop as part of the wider dotNetRDF project I maintain.
It provides a fairly basic GUI through which you can connect to various Triple Stores including TDB provided that you expose your dataset via Joseki/Fuseki. You need to have .Net 3.5 installed to run the apps in the toolkit.
If you don't already expose your TDB dataset via HTTP try using Fuseki as it is ridiculously easy to use and can be run just on your local machine when necessary to make your TDB store available via HTTP for use with my tool e.g.
java -jar fuseki-0.1.0-server.jar --update --loc data /dataset
Please see the Fuseki wiki for more information on running Fuseki and the various options. In the above example Fuseki is run with SPARQL Update enabled (the --update flag), using the TDB dataset located in the directory data (the --loc data argument) and with a base URI of /dataset for the data.
Once running you can use my tool to connect to a Fuseki server by going to File > New Generic Store Manager, selecting the "Fuseki" tab from the dialog that appears, entering the URI http://localhost:3030/dataset/data and then clicking "Connect to Fuseki".
Twinkle is a handy SPARQL client : http://www.ldodds.com/projects/twinkle/
As it happens I'm working on something similar myself, but it still needs a lot of work (check back in a month :) http://hyperdata.org/wiki/Scute
first download jena fusaki from
https://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi
un-zip the file and copy the "jena-fuseki-1.0.1" to c drive
open cmd
type for accesing the folder
"cd C:\jena-fuseki-1.0.1"
then type
"java -jar fuseki-server.jar --update --loc data /dataset"
at last open a browser and type
"localhost:3030/"
remember you must first declear the enviorment verible(located in system poperties then advance tab)
and edit variable name call "Path" in the "System verible" to
"C:\jena-fuseki-1.0.1"
I also develop a SPARQL client, Open Source in Java Swing: EulerGUI.
In fact it does a lot more, see the manual:
http://eulergui.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/eulergui/trunk/eulergui/html/documentation.html
For the SPARQL feature, better take the EulerGUI minimal build:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eulergui/files/eulergui/1.11/