a tool to reverse-engineer a schema

2010-04-27 Thread David Nicol
Has anyone extended DBD::Null to make a tool that after you run a mess
of prepare statements against the handle, it will give you some DDL to
create a schema that they will all make sense on?


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Re: a tool to reverse-engineer a schema

2010-04-27 Thread David Nicol
I mean of course DBD::Mock, sorry
http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DBD-Mock-1.39/lib/DBD/Mock.pm

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:24 AM, David Nicol davidni...@gmail.com wrote:
 Has anyone extended DBD::Null to make a tool that after you run a mess
 of prepare statements against the handle, it will give you some DDL to
 create a schema that they will all make sense on?


RE: a tool to reverse-engineer a schema

2010-04-27 Thread Martin Gainty

David-

My understanding of database design is that a database is used to organise the 
data..
so the upfront work of  define tables..columns and their relationships..DDL 
usually comes first
if a bunch of statements are thrown at the Database the database could 
conceivably cache  those statements and then 
create and or modify the schema?

you might want to consider an ORM (Object Relation Mapper) such as hibernate 
and specify lazy=true (load data only when needed)
http://www.coderanch.com/t/218722/Object-Relational-Mapping/java/fetching-lazy

more specifically you will want to control of when to create your schema 
entities are created via the
hbm2ddl.auto option which will turn on automatic generation of
database schemas directly into the database. 

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/tutorial.html#tutorial-firstapp-workingpersistence

hth
Martin Gainty 
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 From: davidni...@gmail.com
 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:26:40 -0500
 Subject: Re: a tool to reverse-engineer a schema
 To: dbi-users@perl.org
 
 I mean of course DBD::Mock, sorry
 http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DBD-Mock-1.39/lib/DBD/Mock.pm
 
 On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:24 AM, David Nicol davidni...@gmail.com wrote:
  Has anyone extended DBD::Null to make a tool that after you run a mess
  of prepare statements against the handle, it will give you some DDL to
  create a schema that they will all make sense on?
  
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