Eloquence database

This document covers the database improvements and changes as of Eloquence version B.07.00.

Contents

• Overview

• Database limits
• Description of new item types

• Environment variables
  • Database name
  • Authorization

• Database utilities
  • Default user authorization
  • Schema processor
  • Other database utilities

• Database API functions
  • DBOPEN status codes
  • DBFIND mode 6 and 7
  • DBINFO mode 303
  • DBINFO mode 505

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

• Forward-logging
  • Introduction
  • Recovering from abnormal server termination
  • Forward-log configuration
  • Forward-log management
  • The dbrecover utility

Database changes and limitations

• Changes and fixed problems
  • Pre-release change history

• Known problems and limitations
• Backwards compatibility

• QUERY changes

Additional documentation

• The dbctl utility

• Database backup
  • Off-line backup
    • How to use off-line backup
    • How to recover from an off-line backup
    • How to re-create your log volume(s)
  • On-line backup
    • How to use on-line backup
    • How to recover from an on-line backup
    • On-line backup and database utilities
    • On-line backup and forward-logging
  • dbstore / dbrestore
    • How to use dbstore and dbrestore
    • Limitations
    • Saving a database with dbstore
    • Recovering a database with dbrestore
    • Compressed backups