Delphi: Cannot perform this operation on an open dataset - mysql

When I tried to use FireDAC FDQuery with MySQL database I got the following error:
Cannot perform this operation on an open dataset.
query.Open(....my connection string to MySQL....);
try
query.ExecSql;
finally
query.Close;
I filled the FDQuery by double-clicking on the icon on the form. I also
connected to the database to test it. It gave back the results correctly.
I would like to use it from code, but it doesn't work, so
I debugged it. I always get to the breakpoint: query.Close;

You can't call Open and ExecSQL on the same SQL, because they do different things.
Use Open when the query will return a result set, which means for a SELECT. Use ExecSQL when the query does not return a result set, which means for an INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE.
I can't tell you which one applies to your situation, because you failed to include your SQL in your post.

I don't know about FireDAC specifically, but in general with these kind of database components, for queries not returning a result set, thus suitable for ExecSQL, you would want to use ExecSQL on the Connection object, in this case TFDConnection. (Which would presumably be the Connection object that your FDQuery object is connected to.)
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Executing_Commands_(FireDAC)
Apparently there is an ExecSQL method on TFDCustomQuery, but I'm not sure why you would use that, and as you discovered, it doesn't work if the query is already in use.

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Couldn't figure out how the payload worked

I was solving one of TryHackMe's rooms about SQL injection.But I couldn't figured out one thing that came to my mind and after spending lots of time I thought it's best to ask that question here. In the room there is a machine to deploy, after deployed machine it gave me an interface(webapp) that takes inputs from me like so :
And if you give it a value like test. It returns following output:
When I saw it, I thought it was an easy SQLi question so I tried most basic SQLi payloads for common dbms like so:
' ; sleep(1) --
' or 1=1 -- ...
But none of them worked and returned me an error message like that:
After that failure, I run sqlmap and it found 2 types of SQLi payload with following payloads:
Then I realized that in time based SQLi, sqlmap used ||. Then I tried to send '|| (select sleep(2)) -- . And it worked. Now my question is why my first payload(' ; select sleep(2) -- ) didn't work, but this one worked ?
By default, MySQL query interfaces do not support multiple queries separated by semicolon. To get that, the application would have to explicitly request this feature to be enabled when it connects to the database. There's a connect option for that.
So by default, any type of SQL injection that works by trying to append a malicious query after a semicolon doesn't work.
But an SQL injection that works by modifying an expression in the single query can still work.

IllegalStateException while trying create NativeQuery with EntityManager

I have been getting this annoying exception while trying to create a native query with my entity manager. The full error message is:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: During synchronization a new object was found through a relationship that was not marked cascade PERSIST: com.model.OneToManyEntity2#61f3b3b.
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.sessions.RepeatableWriteUnitOfWork.discoverUnregisteredNewObjects(RepeatableWriteUnitOfWork.java:313)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.sessions.UnitOfWorkImpl.calculateChanges(UnitOfWorkImpl.java:723)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.sessions.RepeatableWriteUnitOfWork.writeChanges(RepeatableWriteUnitOfWork.java:441)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EntityManagerImpl.flush(EntityManagerImpl.java:874)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.QueryImpl.performPreQueryFlush(QueryImpl.java:967)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.QueryImpl.executeReadQuery(QueryImpl.java:207)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.QueryImpl.getSingleResult(QueryImpl.java:521)
at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.EJBQueryImpl.getSingleResult(EJBQueryImpl.java:400)
The actual code that triggers the error is:
Query query;
query = entityManager.createNativeQuery(
"SELECT MAX(CAST(SUBSTRING_INDEX(RecordID,'-',-1) as Decimal)) FROM `QueriedEntityTable`");
String recordID = (query.getSingleResult() == null ?
null :
query.getSingleResult()
.toString());
This is being executed with an EntityTransaction in the doTransaction part. The part that is getting me with this though is that this is the first code to be executed within the doTransaction method, simplified below to:
updateOneToManyEntity1();
updateOneToManyEntity2();
entityManager.merge(parentEntity);
The entity it has a problem with "OneToManyEntity1" isn't even the table I'm trying to create the query on. I'm not doing any persist or merge up until this point either, so I'm also not sure what is supposedly causing it to be out of sync. The only database work that's being done up until this code is executed is just pulling in data, not changing anything. The foreign keys are properly set up in the database.
I'm able to get rid of this error by doing as it says and marking these relationships as Cascade.PERSIST, but then I get a MySQLContrainstraViolationException on the query.getSingleResult() line. My logs show that its doing some INSERT queries right before this, so it looks like its reaching the EntityManager.merge part of my doTransaction method, but the error and call stack point to a completely different part of the code.
Using EclipseLink (2.6.1), Glassfish 4, and MySQL. The entitymanager is using RESOURCE_LOCAL with all the necessary classes listed under the persistence-unit tag and exclude-unlisted-classes is set to false.
Edit: So some more info as I'm trying to work through this. If I put a breakpoint at the beginning of the transaction and then execute entityManager.clear() through IntelliJ's "Evaluate Expression" tool, everything works fine at least the first time through. Without it, I get an error as it tries to insert empty objects into the table.
Edit #2: I converted the nativeQuery part into using the Criteria API and this let me actually make it through my code so I could find where it was unintentionally adding in a null object to my entity list. I'm still just confused as to why the entity manager is caching these errors or something to the point that creating a native query is breaking because its still trying to insert bad data. Is this something I'd need to call EntityManager.clear() before doing each time? Or am I supposed to call this when there is an error in the doTransaction method?
So after reworking the code and setting this aside, I stumbled on at least part of the answer to my question. My issue was caused by the object being persisted prior to the transaction starting. So when I was entering my transaction, it first tried to insert/update data from my entity objects and threw an error since I hadn't set the values of most of the non-null columns. I believe this is the reason I was getting the cascade errors and I'm positive this is the source of the random insert queries I saw being fired off at the beginning of my transaction. Hope this helps someone else avoid a lot of trouble.

Calling MySQL stored procedure in ROR 4

There are few example out there but non of them are very clarified (or on old version).
I want to call MySQL procedure and check the return status (in rails 4.2). The most common method I saw is to call result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("call example_proc()"), but in some places people wrote there is prepared method result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute_procedure("Stored Procedure Name", arg1, arg2) (however it didn't compiled).
So what is the correct way to call and get the status for MySQL procedure?
Edit:
And how to send parameters safly, where the first parameter is integer, second string and third boolean?
Rails 4 ActiveRecord::Base doesn't support execute_procedure method, though result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection still works. ie
result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("call example_proc('#{arg1}','#{arg2}')")
You can try Vishnu approach below
or
You can also try
ActiveRecord::Base.connections.exec_query("call example_proc('#{arg1}','#{arg2}')")
here is the document
In general, you should be able to call stored procedures in a regular where or select method for a given model:
YourModel.where("YOUR_PROC(?, ?)", var1, var2)
As for your comment "Bottom line I want the most correct approach with procedure validation afterwards (for warnings and errors)", I guess it always depends on what you actually want to implement and how readable you want your code to be.
For example, if you want to return rows of YourModel attributes, then it probably would be better if you use the above statement with where method. On the other hand, if you write some sql adapter then you might want to go down to the ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute level.
BTW, there is something about stored proc performance that should be mentioned here. In several databases, database does stored proc optimization on the first run of the stored proc. However, the parameters that you pass to that first run might not be those that will be running on it more frequently later on. As a result, your stored-proc might be auto-optimized in a "none-optimal" way for your case. It may or may not happen this way, but it is something that you should consider while using stored procs with dynamic params.
I believe you have tried many other solutions and got some or other errors mostly "out of sync" or "closed connection" errors. These errors occur every SECOND time you try to execute the queries. We need to workaround like the connection is new every time to overcome this. Here is my solution that didn't throw any errors.
#checkout a connection for Model
conn = ModelName.connection_pool.checkout
#use the new connection to execute the query
#records = conn.execute("call proc_name('params')")
#checkout the connection
ModelName.connection_pool.checkin(conn)
The other approaches failed for me, possibly because ActiveRecord connections are automatically handled to checkout and checking for each thread. When our method tries to checkout a connection just to execute the SP, it might conflict since there will be an active connection just when the method started.
So the idea is to manually #checkout a connection for the model instead of for thread/function from the pool and #checkin once the work is done. This worked great for me.

MySQL Query Error Validation

I running a Mysql Query to select some data, Sometimes i get a error called
mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given
when i executed this following code,
$result = $this->db->execute($sql);
for ($i = 0; $data[$i + 1] = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $i++);
array_pop($data);
how do i optimize this coding to prevent any errors ?
is there anything wrong with it ? should i ignore this error ?
That means that the query is buggy, whyever, most likely because you construct it using components from sources which you do not really check enough. A buggy statement throws an error (since no result can be computed). That error is returned as false instead of a mysql result ressource. Since you do not check if the query succeeded but blindly try to retrieve details from the result, you get this second error.
So there are four things you have to invest into:
you should always check if a query succeeded at all:
enclose your query into a conditional: if (FALSE!==($result=$this->db->execute($sql))) and only retrieve from the result ressource if that condition resolves to true.
make sure you really (really!) check all input data you use to construct your query. Checking here also means to encode and escape it correctly, also see point 4. for this.
in cases like this it is important to analyze what exactly it is that is going wrong. There is little sense in guessing what might be going wrong. So in addition to checking if the query succeeded at all (1.) you should also take a look at the error message mysql throws if this is not the case. Use the method mysql_error() for this. It is well documented just as every other function too.
you should rework your code and migrate from phps old, long deprecated mysql extension to either mysqli or PDO. Both are php extensions that offer more security against constructing buggy statements. Read about "prepared statements" and "parameter binding" for this.

Access 2010 String Comparison Invalid procedure call

We've just upgraded from Access 2003 to Access 2010 and string comparisons are failing with an invalid procedure call error when default conditions are used. I’ve recreated two presumably related problems in a new Access 2007 format database containing only the default table, a query with the SQL below and a module containing only the code below, so I seriously doubt that this is a corruption issue.
First the following sub fails on the If Then line with Run-time error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Sub checkStrCmp()
Dim str As String
str = "s"
If str = "s" Then
MsgBox "works"
End If
End Sub
If I change Option Compare Database to Option Compare Text the sub works as expected, but this seems like a bad idea as I may want to preform text as well as numeric comparisons inside a single sub.
I’m also getting “Invalid procedure call” errors in string comparison functions inside of SQL. The Replace function is requiring the supposedly optional compare parameter.
Select replace("foo-bar-baz", "-", "|", 1,-1);
Generates the “Invalid procedure call” error
Setting the compare parameter to any of the available values (0 -3) works as expected:
SELECT replace("foo-bar-baz", "-", "|", 1,-1, 0);
produces “foo|bar|baz”
Has anyone else seen this? Is there a setting that needs to be tweaked? Any other ideas outside of “Database corruption” which is all I’ve been able to find via Google.
TIA
apoligies for the sloppy code blocks I can't for the life of me get them to work right.
UPDATE: I should have mentioned that I'm running XP Pro sp3.
The problem seems limited to databases I create on my box. When I opened the test database I created on my box from other workstations on our network I saw the issue, but was then unable to recreate it when creating a new database as described above on those workstations. The databases I created on the two other workstations (same OS and MS Office versions installed) also worked correctly when opened on my machine. I was also unable to recreate the issue when I inserted new modules in those DBs from my machine.
In short the problem seems to only exist on databases created on my machine (and in old 2003 format databases I've converted to 2007 format on my machine). My best guess is that my install is hosed but I’d like to have some idea of how and why before I approach IT with a request to reinstall Office. I’d also like to rule out a conflict with other software on my box.
Your code modules do not all need to share the same Option Compare setting. So you could place those procedures which should use text comparisons in a module which has Option Compare Text in its Declarations section.
However, I don't understand your statement, "I may want to preform text as well as numeric comparisons inside a single sub." According to Access' help topic, the Option Compare Statement is "Used at module level to declare the default comparison method to use when string data is compared". In other words, Option Compare has no effect on the comparisons of numeric values.
Edit: Since the problem is limited to Option Compare Database for database files created on only one machine, I'll suggest you check Access' "New database sort order" setting on that machine. Change it to a choice which starts with "General" if it is set to anything else. Then create a new database and see whether you still have the problem.
The reason for this suggestion is that Option Compare Database tells Access to use the database's codepage setting for sorting. And "New database sort order" can set the codepage to the one which never gives me such troubles. However, my understanding of codepage details is pretty shallow; I never change it and don't know what the consequences of other settings would be.