Eloquence B.07.00 - Database

DBUTIL utility

The dbutil utility has been significantly enhanced as of B.07.00. This document covers the new and improved functionality and provides a complete description of the improved dbutil script syntax.

• DBUTIL enhancements
• Command line usage
• Database structural maintenance
• Interactive usage
• Dbutil script syntax

DBUTIL enhancements

• Interactive mode
  dbutil supports an interactive mode for database security management. When run without passing a script file dbutil will launch a dialog based user interface.

• Enhanced capabilities
  The dbutil capabilities have been enhanced. The script syntax is backwards compatible with the previous Eloquence A.06.3x version.

• Database structural maintenance
  dbutil supports database structural maintenance. The dbutil script language allows to modify the database schema. The database server will restructure the database as necessary. This functionality has been introduced with PR#8 and cannot be used with older eloqdb6 versions.

Command line usage

  usage: dbutil [options] [file|-]
  options:
   -help      - show usage (this list)
   -u name    - user name (default "dba")
   -p pswd    - password
   -h host    - host name or ip address (and service)
   -s service - service name or port number
   -n         - pretend          (batch mode only)
   -v         - verbose          (batch mode only)
   -T         - HP3000 TurboImage compatibility mode

  If a file is specified, dbutil will process in batch mode
  and process any statements in the batch file.
  If the file argument is not specified dbutil runs in
  interactive mode.
  If the -n option is present, no changes will be made to the
  database. Processing will end after checking the input file
  and the analyse phase.

The -n and -v options are only available when used in batch mode. The -n option causes dbutil to execute in test mode. All changes are rolled-back and not applied to the database. The -v option displays additional information during script processing. If specified twice, every command in the script will be echoed back to the user.

The -T option causes dbutil to interpret all item types and sizes in TurboIMAGE format. By default, item types and sizes follow the Eloquence conventions (ie. item sizes are in byte units).

The -h option can be specified with a [host][:service] syntax where host defaults to the local system and service defaults to the "eloqdb" service name. Alternatively, the EQ_DBSERVER environment variable may be used.

User and password, specified with the -u and -p options, can be a reference to a file if prepended by "file:". They may also be defined by the EQ_DBUSER and EQ_DBPASSWORD environment variables.

Database structural maintenance

Eloquence database structural maintenance is very flexible. Here are the current restrictions as of Eloquence B.07.00:

• The type of a data set cannot be changed (e.g. from detail to master).

• The search item of a manual master set cannot be modified in a way which might lead to duplicates. For example, shortening a search item in a manual master from X20 to X10 is not allowed.

• The order of data sets cannot be changed. New data sets are appended to the existing list of data sets. The exceptions are master sets which are inserted before the first related detail set.

• The order of items cannot be changed. New items are appended to the existing list of items.

• The order of index items cannot be changed. New index items are appended to the existing list of index items.

• If data is converted to a different data type the conversion algorithm can currently not be specified.

The following conversion rules apply:

• Any truncation or precision loss is indicated with a single warning message per item in a data set. This warning is written into the database server log which by default is the syslog on HP-UX and Linux or the event log on Windows. The database server log flags must contain I1 at least to make these warning messages appear in the log.

• Conversion of negative values into an unsigned data type (K) currently results in the absolute value, ie. the negative sign is lost.

• Conversion of floating point values into integral data types currently truncate any post-decimal digits.

Interactive usage

Script syntax