Re: MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255
Well it's happened again where I discover a blog post I made that helps me towards a current problem. Looking here: http://saltydogllc.com/on-vfp-and-mysql-connectionstrings/ Here are the options (at the time, I doubt they've changed): 2 = Return matched rows instead of affected rows 8 = Allow big result sets 16 = Don’t prompt when connecting 32 = Enable dynamic cursors 64 = Ignore schema in column specifications 128 = Disable driver-provided cursor support 256 = Don’t use setlocale() 512 = Pad CHAR to full length with space 1024 = Include table name in SQLDescribeCol() 2048 = Use compression 4096 = Ignore space after function names 8192 = Force use of named pipes 16384 = Treat BIGINT columns as INT columns 32768 = Disable catalog support 65536 = Read options from my.cnf 131072 = Enable safe options (see documentation) 262144 = Disable transaction support 524288 = Log queries to myodbc.sql 1048576 = Don’t cache results of forward-only cursors 2097152 = Force use of forward-only cursors 4194304 = Enable automatic reconnect 8388608 = Enable SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL 67108864 = Allow multiple statements 134217728 = Limit column size to signed 32-bit range 268435456 = Always handle binary function results as character data Your value of 67174427 means: 67108864 = Allow multiple statements + 65536 = Read options from my.cnf + 16 = Don’t prompt when connecting + 8 = Allow big result sets + 2 = Return matched rows instead of affected rows + 1 (I don't know what this means) Not sure what's in your *my.cnf* that might affect the results. Maybe throw a 512 or 64 in there to see what happens? Eric On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:16 AM < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > I'd appreciate that, Eric. I'm using 67174427. > > > On 2019-02-25 14:42, Eric Selje wrote: > > Yes I'd check your ConnectionString Options. Whil Hentzen's book about > > devloping with Fox and MySQL (Maria) goes over all of those. I can > > check > > it if you'd like. > > > > Eric > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:36 PM > > > > wrote: > > > >> On 2019-02-18 18:07, Fred Taylor wrote: > >> > Mike, > >> > > >> > Are you sure it's not a TINYTEXT field? TINYTEXT is 0 to 255 chars. > >> > > >> > TEXT is 65,535 > >> > > >> > And MEDIUMTEXT is 16,777,215. > >> > > >> > Fred > >> > >> > >> I'll double-check but I'm thinking it's my connection string OPTIONS > >> value. > >> [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAAwxvU=mpy2dm8cfzzrfnebefsdyoq-+wr5xx98mjcszmeq...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Creating a copy of a database -- best practice?
Ok, I haven't done this in a while, but I think I have done this a few ways.
First, by "metadata" of the database, I assume you mean stored
procedures, maybe table triggers, database comment field?
I'll also assume you are trying to run from within an .exe (so commands
like COPY PROCEDURES TO... and APPEND PROCEDURES FROM ... will not be
available)
So...
1) if you know the "data model" of the dbc, you can open it like a table
- then look for the metadata items you want (the stored procedure code,
trigger code, etc). Do a SCATTER MEMO NAME ... Then open the other DBC
as a table and do an APPEND FROM NAME ... After everything is copied
that way I think you will want to do a PACK DATABASE or maybe VALIDATE
DATABASE on the backup. I seem to recall doing that.
2) after you've copied all the tables, copy the "database files" with
"COPY FILE TO " - copy the dbc, dct, and dcx this way.
Again a PACK or VALIDATE database may be needed afterwards. And of
course, be careful with this, test it out, etc. But I definitely used
this approach before.
3) if you are not worried about the tables being opened at the time of
doing the backup, you could just do the "COPY FILE TO " -
that command allows paths in the from/to. Also, I think it allows
wildcards, so you could do a complete copy in 1 command. Of course, the
downside is the assumption of files being closed.
-HTH,
-Charlie
On 2/27/2019 12:22 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I can easily do something like this:
CREATE DATABASE C:\Backup\MyDBC.dbc
OPEN DATABASE C:\Production\MyDBC.dbc
liNumTables = adbobjects(laTables,'TABLE')
for ii = 1 to liNumTables
lcFile = forceext("C:\BACKUP\" + laTables[ii],'dbf')
use laTables[ii]
copy to (lcFile) database C:\Backup\MyDBC.dbc with cdx
use
endfor
...and that would get me a copy of all of the tables with their
indexes. Great. But what's the easiest way to get all of the DBC
meta-data into that new Backup database copy? I can't USE the
MyDBC.dbc and do a COPY TO as that only makes the result a DBF and FPT.
Trying to think about a good disaster recovery plan (besides using
CleverFox from Rick Schummer and Frank Perez...which is probably the
best option!) for automating backups at the client who just got that
ransomware virus.
tia,
--Mike
[excessive quoting removed by server]
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Re: false news....
On 2019-02-22 14:50, Kevin Cully wrote: There are a ton of VFP developers and they've never reached out to their community to improve their skills and it shows in their code. So true! Together, we're better. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a3600e4a845aad4c00b719ad780af...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255 (SOLVED)
On 2019-02-23 01:23, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On 2019-02-18 15:50, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: My VFP9SP2 app connects to my web database with no issue. My client wanted to host the database on his network there so I installed MariaDB there and everything seemed to fire up just fine. HOWEVER, there's a problem with the memo fields capping at length=255. Given that it works with a different (my web) MariaDB database, I'm sure this is a configuration issue. Question is: where do I find/set that? His network OS is Windows 2016 Server. My web database is using a Linux OS iirc. tia, --Mike Here's the weird fix: instead of using a MEDIUMTEXT field, it worked just fine when I changed it to TEXT fields. Now MEDIUMTEXT is supposed to handle LARGER #s of characters, but in this case, just TEXT should suffice. Still...wonder why the ODBC (originally 3.51, then I upgraded to the latest 64-bit MariaDB driver) has a problem with MEDIUMTEXT on this Windows 2016 Server? My other database (where no issues at all) operates on a Debian Linux OS. Thoughts? No takers on this one. Look at the solution above. Thoughts on why TEXT worked and not MEDIUMTEXT (which is larger than TEXT iirc)? tia, --Mike ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/f743075b64adf1083a3e34348960e...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] Registering DLL's
I haven't tried that. If it comes up again. I'll see if we can try it. -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:58 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Registering DLL's On a problem machine, does running your installer with /LOG and then examining the log when it fails give any clues ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/01d4cec0$ddeb8730$99c29590$@powerchurch.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Creating a copy of a database -- best practice?
I can easily do something like this:
CREATE DATABASE C:\Backup\MyDBC.dbc
OPEN DATABASE C:\Production\MyDBC.dbc
liNumTables = adbobjects(laTables,'TABLE')
for ii = 1 to liNumTables
lcFile = forceext("C:\BACKUP\" + laTables[ii],'dbf')
use laTables[ii]
copy to (lcFile) database C:\Backup\MyDBC.dbc with cdx
use
endfor
...and that would get me a copy of all of the tables with their indexes.
Great. But what's the easiest way to get all of the DBC meta-data into
that new Backup database copy? I can't USE the MyDBC.dbc and do a COPY
TO as that only makes the result a DBF and FPT.
Trying to think about a good disaster recovery plan (besides using
CleverFox from Rick Schummer and Frank Perez...which is probably the
best option!) for automating backups at the client who just got that
ransomware virus.
tia,
--Mike
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Re: MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255
I'd appreciate that, Eric. I'm using 67174427. On 2019-02-25 14:42, Eric Selje wrote: Yes I'd check your ConnectionString Options. Whil Hentzen's book about devloping with Fox and MySQL (Maria) goes over all of those. I can check it if you'd like. Eric On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:36 PM wrote: On 2019-02-18 18:07, Fred Taylor wrote: > Mike, > > Are you sure it's not a TINYTEXT field? TINYTEXT is 0 to 255 chars. > > TEXT is 65,535 > > And MEDIUMTEXT is 16,777,215. > > Fred I'll double-check but I'm thinking it's my connection string OPTIONS value. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/fbb6724da613f39736b11588b1c58...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Webfaction question
On Feb 22, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Kevin Cully wrote: > > I've really liked working with DigitalOcean. I know people combine the DO > Server with the NameCheap service for an entire solution. Like me? Every ProFox email goes through DO servers. Every ProFox archive search goes through DO servers. And I use NameCheap for my domains. The technology side of DO is rock-solid, which I really like. But what I like even more is their “how-to” documentation. You can find a over 2000 (!) of them here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/ -- Ed Leafe ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/c77d196f-fc5d-4421-ae4c-7b9711972...@leafe.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: false news....
Forgive yourself and move on. :D We've all made bad design decisions at one point or another in the past. The most important part is that you are active in a developer community and seek to do better. I hope that I am a better developer today than I was yesterday. There are a ton of VFP developers and they've never reached out to their community to improve their skills and it shows in their code. On 2/22/19 12:57 PM, M Jarvis wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM Kevin J Cully wrote: I had a potential client where they based their primary keys based on employee Social Security Numbers. They didn't like it when I told them that they'd need a complete rewrite. Notice this would have been the case no matter what language/technology they were using. It was just piss poor design. I must confess I did this once and used SSN's as a primary key. It is my shame I was told I had a year and a half to write a enterprise wide application and out of the blue the reality was I had about 3 weeks, and failure would have cost millions and millions... oh - and my job... I was panicked and the first thing I thought to use was the SSN thinking that certainly they wouldn't be changing so as a PK would be handy to use. I went for it w/o thinking it through... Granted, this was back in the day when the internet wasn't what we think of today, but still - it was a really dumb dumb idea I always regretted... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/b7be1462-b482-6f69-309a-cccb6f4d7...@cully.biz ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: Webfaction question
I've really liked working with DigitalOcean. I know people combine the DO Server with the NameCheap service for an entire solution. On 2/22/19 2:41 PM, Ken McGinnis wrote: I started using webfaction many years ago because someone on this list mentioned it. I have been very happy. However, now Webfaction has been taken over by Godaddy and none of my old procedures work for some reason. Also, they are not very responsive to questions. For example: I have several web sites on Webfaction and have my DNS server (name.com) pointed to them and it works fine. However, I used to be able to 'hide' things in a sub folder of one of those web sites and allow anyone to see what was there (sometimes with a password). Now I can't do that using FileZilla client. I set the permissions to 777 and there is no access at all. The subfolder can't even be seen in a directory list. Anyone have the same experience? What I really want to know is if anyone has had good experience with a cheap (Linux?) server where I can put my web sites. I don't need email or any else other than storage, about 150gb or more. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5ee2d670-ba1f-7f32-f88d-39d60e2eb...@cully.biz ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Registering DLL's
On a problem machine, does running your installer with /LOG and then examining the log when it fails give any clues ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/f2decced-c37a-4ba8-a535-49924600d...@www.fastmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
