Hi Mark

Thanks for the patch

I just got back from vacation and am trying to clear my email backlog right 
now, I will hopefully get time to test and verify this patch by the weekend (if 
not sooner)

Rob

On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Mark Roth wrote:

> I posted the patch to JENA-219. I'm using SDB 1.3.4 but I created the patch 
> off trunk.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Seaborne [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy 
> Seaborne
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 5:33 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SDB - Microsoft SQL Server support? But what about LIMIT and 
> OFFSET?
> 
> On 09/03/12 04:15, Mark Roth wrote:
>> I've filed issue JENA-219 to track this.
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-219
>> 
>> I also have a patch that fixes it. Will post once it's cleaned up a bit.
> 
> Excellent news.
> 
> Which version of SDB are you using?
> 
>       Andy
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -          Mark
>> 
>> From: Mark Roth
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:28 PM
>> To: '[email protected]'
>> Subject: SDB - Microsoft SQL Server support? But what about LIMIT and OFFSET?
>> 
>> According to [1], SDB supports Microsoft SQL Server. However, when I follow 
>> the instructions and run the test suite, all the Slice tests fail with 
>> com.hp.hpl.jena.sdb.test.junit.QueryTestSDB: "SQLException in executing SQL 
>> statement". When I debug further, I see that this is because SQL statements 
>> are being executed with LIMIT and OFFSET keywords, which are not supported 
>> by Microsoft SQL Server (OFFSET is coming in SQL Server 2012, though). I 
>> checked the code and I'm not sure how this would have ever worked with 
>> Microsoft SQL Server.
>> 
>> Is this database engine really supported? How important are the "Slice" 
>> tests to the functionality of the server? Is there a way to switch off 
>> functionality such that LIMIT and OFFSET queries are never sent to the DB 
>> server?
>> 
>> It's relatively easy to patch the code to use "SELECT TOP" instead of 
>> "LIMIT" but to replace "OFFSET" with something like "SELECT ROW_NUMBER() 
>> ..." requires that there is a consistent ordering of the rows so I don't see 
>> an easy patch. I'd be willing to work on one if someone gave me some 
>> direction of what needed to be patched.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -          Mark
>> 
>> [1] 
>> http://incubator.apache.org/jena/documentation/sdb/databases_supported.html
>> 
>> 
> 

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