Hi Matt,

On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Matt Lamoureux wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I'm just starting to use Xwiki, having been the admin for my company's
> JSPwiki installation for a few years now.  In that one, we had a very
> useful part of the wiki which was an online database schema for our
> databases.  You see a list of the tables, which you can click on and see
> the list of fields in that table, which you can click on and see the
> information regarding that field.  Our method was to take a DDL and run it
> through a script which parsed it out into files that JSPwiki could read.
> This way, we could take updated DDL's, run those through the script, and
> keep updating the table list and table info pages, while leaving the field
> named pages untouched.
>   Assuming I have described that correctly, does anyone have any solutions
> that would be similar to this in Xwiki?  Something that doesn't involve
> manually updating the table list and table info pages?

That would be great. The info we have at 
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DatabaseSchema is a bit too 
static indeed.

>  I was thinking we
> could modify the script to spit out something that we could the import into
> Xwiki, but I'm not sure if that is the best approach.  I was hoping there
> was a plugin that let you connect to a database and run real-time queries
> and then us a macro to wiki-fy the results, but I didn't find anything like
> that.

Here's an example:
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Execute+SQL

Thanks
-Vincent

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