That's great, thanks Denis and Rob to get this sorted out! :)

-Vincent

On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Denis Gervalle wrote:

> I am adding this follow up, so anyone with an Microsoft SQL server database
> will get the final outcome of this issue.
> 
> XWiki devs team does not officially support MS-SQL, however, with the great
> help provided by Rob, I have been able to add basic support of MS-SQL into
> the migration R40000XWIKI6990. See
> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8125for details. This fix will be
> released in version 4.1.4 and 4.2M3. This
> does not change our policy about supported databases, but it will surely
> help those that have been successful running XWiki on MS-SQL up to now.
> 
> Many thanks to Rob for its very useful inputs and tests.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> At least, you have progressed, you achieved the configuration so that the
>> migration was tried, but has failed.
>> 
>> Your diagnosis about what happened seems to me quite right. We drop only
>> FK constraints, and we do not care about any PK constraints, since our
>> supported databases are not affected by this.
>> 
>> Hopelessly, I cannot provide you with the liquibase changelogs, since
>> these are generated on the fly for R40000XWIKI6990, depending on the source
>> databases. Basically, it does <dropForeignKeyConstraint> for all FK found
>> in the hibernate mapping table concerned by the ID changes, then
>> <modifyDataType> to BIGINT for those IDs which have to be enlarged, and
>> finally it <addForeignKeyConstraint> back with an onUpdate="CASCADE"
>> (except for Oracle where it use initiallyDeferred=true).
>> 
>> The above is probably not helping much. Since MSSQL is unsupported, you
>> are on a little bit on your own with this, and I could only suggest some
>> tricky ideas that may absolutely not work. Here is what you may try:
>> 1) from a fresh DB, launch the migration, it will fail but will have
>> dropped the FK and it should not try again. This is your current state. You
>> may check it does not try again by restarting the wiki again, and ensure
>> that it fails at the same point.
>> 2) manually drop the PK constraints for all table having such definition
>> for an IDs that has his datatype changed. Enlarged IDs are all those that
>> are related to objects, and statistics.
>> 3) Restart the wiki, it should hopefully go further, and may probably fail
>> when we try to put FK constraints back.
>> 4) manually recreate the PK constraints for all drop you have made.
>> 5) Restart the wiki again, and cross fingers ! If you are lucky, it will
>> terminate liquibase updates, and start the data migration.
>> 
>> Once again, these are only suggestions, and your chances for success
>> are honestly quite low. Anyway, please let me know the outcome. If it does
>> not work and you are willing to collaborate and could provide needed inputs
>> and testing supports, I will try to find some time to work with you on
>> improving our migration procedure. Contact me in private regarding this
>> last point.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:31 PM, rheim651 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Okay, here is an Update:  Using the xwiki.cfg file I posted to pastebin, I
>>> modified
>>> xwiki.store.migration=1
>>> 
>>> After restarting the server I am still getting the exact same error
>>> message
>>> in the browser.
>>> 
>>> Looking at the DATABASECHANGELOG from inside the target database, the
>>> Liquibase executions  get as far as removing the Foreign Keys.  It seems
>>> to
>>> fail when attempting to change the datatype on the Primary Key for
>>> xwikiobjects.
>>> 
>>> In the stdout file I am now seeing the following liquibase error when
>>> attempting to change the datatype on the Primary Key for xwikiobjects to
>>> BIGINT.
>>> 
>>> 2012-08-03 08:21:00,691 [http://10.43.30.38:9080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/]
>>> ERROR
>>> c.x.x.s.m.liquibase            - Change Set
>>> liquibase.xml::R40000-009::dgervalle failed.  Error: Error executing SQL
>>> ALTER TABLE [dbo].[xwikiobjects] ALTER COLUMN [XWO_ID] BIGINT: The object
>>> 'PK__xwikiobj__6F7E67F86383C8BA' is dependent on column 'XWO_ID'.
>>> 
>>> I believe the reason for this error is that on SQL Server the Primary Key
>>> constraint should to be dropped first before you can change the datatype.
>>> (At least that's what I found in my script testing).
>>> 
>>> Would it be possible to see the liquibase changelogs for this migration?
>>> I'm not sure where in the package this information is stored.

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