RE: Comparing two databases

2013-04-29 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi SKIP, Is that something that can be scripted? I need to create an automated report of differences and emailed out to the appropriate parties. I briefly looked at the SQL DIFF function that you described but it looks like it is all manually run from Studio Pro. It should be possible

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-29 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 4/29/13 6:06 PM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: Hi SKIP, Is that something that can be scripted? I need to create an automated report of differences and emailed out to the appropriate parties. I briefly looked at the SQL DIFF function that you described but it

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-29 Thread william humphrey
Igor Thanks for the suggestions. I think doing it with LiveCode text handling is going to be a very flexible solution and you could just dump the data from the databases after a certain date which is set based on the last time they were synchronised. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Ruslan

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Skip, I'd say it would be quite easy to open both dbs in LC, do a SELECT on each one for the primary key and the three fields you're interested in, then use LC to compare the results. One way to do it might be to put the results of the first SELECT into an array keyed by the primary key, do

RE: Comparing two databases

2013-04-28 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Is there a way to do a live comparison of the two or would it be best to import data from the two DBs into two separate tables locally and then do some type of comparison? I am really only comparing about 3 fields from each DB. Valentina Studio Pro has a SQL DIFF feature that should be

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-28 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Hi Lynn, Is that something that can be scripted? I need to create an automated report of differences and emailed out to the appropriate parties. I briefly looked at the SQL DIFF function that you described but it looks like it is all manually run from Studio Pro. SKIP On Sun, Apr 28, 2013

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/04/2013, at 7:58 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: What would be the best approach for this in LC? One is a remote MySQL DB and the other is a local Access DB. I have not done any work with Access, so I don't know what its capabilities are. Nevertheless,