On Sat Oct 15 11:21:59 2011, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
On Sat Oct 15 00:11:26 2011, Francois Eyl wrote:
Ok, that's what I was wondering, but wasn't sure because of all DBEntity
attributes that seem to be specific to database's vendor (CHAR vs NCHAR or
DECIMAL vs NUMERIC).
I'll try to connect to the MSSQL database using the appropriate JDBC driver and
see.
Thanks,
Francois
On 14/10/2011 14:39, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
On Fri Oct 14 23:27:33 2011, Francois Eyl wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm using Cayenne on my project in order to interface it with a third party
application through its database. Until now, the database was a DB2 (AS400),
but the application now supports MS SQL Server as well. So, I need to support
both DB2 and MSSQL Server of course. The databases schemas are stricly the same.
I wonder what is the best way to achieve this, knowing that I already have my
datamap & datanode ready for DB2. I'd like to avoid redefining ObjectEntities
by implementation (one set of data for DB2 and another for SQLServer). How do you
recommand me to proceed?
Do I need to create an other DataDomain, and "duplicate" the definition stuff?
Thanks in advance,
Francois
In most cases, there is absolutely nothing to do at all. Just connect to the
database of your choice and Cayenne will make it all work.
They are the JDBC data types, not the SQL equivalents (often with the same
name, but not always).
Sorry, pressed send too quickly....
The best reference I've found is this one:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/mapping.html
The main issues that I've found between databases have been around
collation (case insensitive / sensitive makes a big difference to your
queries). Timezones (for example mysql never stores them but defaults
to a system timezone for the whole server). Indexing (eg. some
databases let you have functional indices and others don't).
As for ongoing maintenance (upgrading the database, running scripts,
etc) I've recently discovered liquibase and it is really rather nice
for dealing with different databases without rewriting lots of SQL by
hand.
Ari
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