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Version 4.1 by David Holt on 2008/05/12 19:07
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1 FrontBase is now available for free. Please see the FrontBase website [[http://www.frontbase.com]] for details.
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5 **Useful SQL commands in FrontBase**
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7 {{code value="sql"}}
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9 // writes an ascii backup of your database
10 write all output(dir='/path/to/export/dir', type = 'FrontBase', content=true);
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12 // creates a database from the exported files that results from the previous command
13 SCRIPT <path-to-export-directory>/schema.sql;
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15 // to rename a table
16 alter table name Item to ItemArchive;
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18 {{/code}}
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20 If you don't use type='FrontBase', you end up losing precision on your timestamp columns, which can really suck.
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24 A first experience with FrontBase, WO 5.3.1 and MacOSX 10.4.6
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26 Make sure you have the FrontBase jdbc connector accessible from your WebObjects applications. I placed mine in /Library/Java/Extensions/
27 Make sure that the FrontBasePlugIn.framework is located in /Library/Java/Frameworks
28 Make sure that you have added the framework to your project or you will not be able to establish a connection to your database, even though you'll be able to see your database from EOModeler.
29 If you haven't yet assigned a User/Password combination to your database, you still must include User information in order for the connection to be established. Use system to get started. The URL for basic connection is: jdbc:FrontBase:~/~/localhost/my_database_name
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31 The documentation available at the Frontbase site is very complete. The only gotcha was that I was left with the impression the framework was only necessary for WebObjects 4.5 and below. This is not the case, you have to install and include it for WO 5 projects too.
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33 **Migration from MySQL**
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35 In most cases the datatypes are exactly the same. Here are the FrontBase equivalents for common datatypes in MySQL that are different:
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37 TEXT -> CLOB
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39 DATETIME -> TIMESTAMP
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41 INT -> INTEGER
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43 MEDIUMBLOB -> BLOB