I want to give user a choice to select database in our application where number of options will be available like sqlserver,MySql,Sqlite etc.When user selects the type of database,we will show window which will ask user to input the parameters required for DB connection.This will let us connect to user's DB.But Now we want to show all tables and columns from each table to user to select particular tables and columns from it.Is it possible to implement this behavior using NHibernate?Or do I need to use ADO.NET for it?
I have searched web to check if it is possible using NHibernate but I just got one answer here..
Using nHibernate to retrieve Database Schema
I am not able to understand if this answer will solve my problem.
Thanks in advance
Many database servers implement a schema called INFORMATION. This is part of the ANSI Standard for RDBMSs.
It contains data about the schema, tables, and views in the database. I don't know how consistent the INFORMATION structures are across different implementations (e.g. MS SQL, MySQL, etc), or how many of them actually implement it, but that would be the place to start.
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How to Retrieve All Active Inventories from All tenants and companies to one custom screen selector in Acumatica??
In ISV Solution I am trying this. How to approach this scenario
Disclaimer: What you are asking appears to venture into a use case that is contrary to a foundational design element of Acumatica ERP - isolation of tenants within a single database. While I have a similar use case in mind in which I need to do the same, use of any of these suggestions should be weighed seriously against your business requirements and operating constraints.
After discussion with some Acumatica Developer MVP's and Acumatica staff, there is no SUPPORTED method for doing this directly with tables already containing a CompanyID field. However, here are a few possible ways to achieve your desired results.
Create alternate SQL Tables / Acumatica DAC's without CompanyID and CompanyMask so that the data can be shared. This will require keeping the supplemental table data in sync.
UNSUPPORTED (This will fail an ISV Certification) - Create a SQL view that excludes CompanyID and CompanyMask and an Acumatica DAC for that view. This will allow visibility to the data, regardless of tenant, without having to create or maintain duplicate data. Again, I was advised strongly against this approach in the same statement of it being possible.
Use an alternative tool to access the data in the SQL database if you have direct access to the database. This tool would have to access the database in a way completely independently of PXData so that all database queries do not automatically receive the "CompanyID = X" in the where clause.
It was mentioned that you might do something with impersonating other users, but I don't have any experience with that. I'm not sure if it would allow cross-tenant data access, but I don't believe it would allow viewing more than 1 tenant even if it does let you view another tenant at all.
My understanding is that the first option is the preferred method to stay within Acumatica in a supported way. The third option could be valid if you already use other analytics tools like Cognos.
I'm still learning MVC and have gone through several online tutorials. But I'm missing something sort of vital to my application, so this is a general question not necessarily requiring code examples to answer. If you can just steer me in the right direction in conceptual terms...
My application is completely read-only to the database, I don't need or want to write back. I need to pull data from multiple tables in one database, which are the exact same schema, into what I think would be a single model that I can then filter, then display the results. To complicate things somewhat, the table names need to be variables, these tables are built upstream on the fly using the date as part of the table name.
The tables are television automation schedules, different table for each day, but each contain a number of fields for scheduled time, house ID, title, etc. I need to get several days into one model (I think), and then I'm going to query a different database that will tell me for each row in the table whether the House ID exists on a video server or not. I want to then display the list of rows that do not exist in the video server.
I have an example in VB but feel like I should tackle this in C# as it seems to be more universally supported.
I don't think I can use VS tools to create a model from the database table since the table name is different every day.
So is the proper plan of attack to load the multiple table data into one model?
Maybe I don't even need a model in the true sense of the word, there's no binding required to be able to write the data back to the db. I just essentially need to load the table data into an array, doesn't need to continue to be bound to the db, that I can then analyze and figure out which of these items don't exist in the server.
Thanks!
I am working on a project where I need to create a database to track the status of units throughout the production process. My current blockade involves getting the users to interact with a DataGridView that is supplied from a Microsoft Access Query instead of a Microsoft Access Table.
What I want to do is create a query in Microsoft Access and have it link to the DataGridView so end users can interact with a query instead of the actual tables, while populating all parent tables.
I am not sure if what I am attempting to do is possible or advised. This is the first time I have built a database in the professional world and want to make sure I am doing things properly. I have also never built a C# application for business use and have very limited experience with the language itself.
I have tried creating the Query in Access and linking it to the application in the same way you would add a table from a data source. That would allow me to view the data in the query...but it would display as a read-only and not allow for any data to be altered (the query builder in the TableAdapter Query Configuration Wizard indicated it was a read-only) . I have tried adding all related table adapters to the TableAdapterManager and it still didn't help.
I apologize if this question sounds disjointed as I am trying to overcome one obstacle at a time and do not want to overload one question with multiple issues. I can supply my ERD if it will make things easier and I have it normalized to at least 2NF.
Background
My backend has a database in SQL server 2012 which has around 20 tables (maybe will increase in time) and each table will have approx 100 - 1000 rows initially might increase in future.
Now one of my colleague developed an web application which uses this database and let clients do CRUD and usual business logic.
Problem
My task is to create a reporting page for this web application, what I will be doing is to give client ability to export all of the data for all of there deep nested objects from SQL from all tables or only couple with all columns or only few... in excel, pdf and other formats in future. I might also need to query 3rd party in my business logic for gathering further information (out of context for now).
What can I do to achieve above ?
What I know
I can't think of any efficient and extendable solution, as it will involve 100s of columns and 20s of tables. All I can think of adding 100s of views for what I might require but it doesn't sound particle either.
Should I look into BI or SQL reporting or should this be done in code using ORM like EF ? or is there any open source code already out there for such Generic operations I am totally confused.
Please note I am asking what to use not how to use. Hope I didn't offended anyone.
If you aren't concerned with the client having access to all your database object names, you could write up something yourself without too much effort. If you are creating a page you could query the system views to get a list of all table and column names to populate some sort of filtering (dropdowns, listbox, etc).
you can get a list of all the tables:
select object_id, name from sys.tables
you could get a list of all columns per table:
select object_id, name from sys.columns
object_id is the common key between the views.
Then you could write some dynamic SQL based on the export requirements if you plan to export through SQL.
Not sure if this question is suitable for StackOverflow as it's much more 'general'. Basically, I have a database driven business application made in ASP.NET and C#, which'll be used by around 20 members of a company. A crucial aspect of this is auditing - I need to log on any changes to any of the tables, and have them viewable by senior members of the staff.
My current solution uses SQL triggers, but I need to create something much more robust and user friendly. The database is gigantic, with a lot of tables with relations etc, and the audits currently are very uninformative to the users - telling the staff that x user modified an order to have a customer of ID of 837 is near enough useless - I need to be able to dictate which field is displayed in the audit log.
My idea is to create a class in my code that'll handle all these, and somehow map out what fields to display to the user, and also somehow tell the code which table was modified and which record.
Can anyone offer any general advice on how to do what I want, and whether it's actually possibile? I'm a heavy user of LINQ-to-SQL in my code, so I'm hoping that'll help...
You could also try using DoddleAudit for your needs. It provides automatic auditing of all inserts/updates/deletes for any table in your database with a single line of code, including:
What table was modified?
What fields changed?
Who made the change?
When did it occur?
You can find it here: http://doddleaudit.codeplex.com/
I've had similar audit requirements for a healthcare application, which used linq-to-sql for data access.
One way to do it centrally in Linq-to-sql is to override SubmitChanges in the data context class. Before submitting the changes, call GetChangeSet() to get data about the pending changes. Then add change tracking information as appropriate to a relevant log table before calling base.SubmitChanges(). In my application I used an xml column to be able to store change data for different tables in a structured manner, without having to create special history tables for each table in the system.
You could also try using SQL Server 2008's Change Data Capture feature. It basically captures inserts, updates and deletes on the desired tables, and stores changes made into a separate set of relational tables.
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1474/using-change-data-capture-cdc-in-sql-server-2008/