Red Gate has some pretty good tools, but I don't think that their Dependency Tracker shows how Tables are effected by the stored procedures that touch them.
Is there any tool that can scan a database and determine what processes INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE records from the table as opposed to just touching\being dependent on them? Seems like this shuld exist by now...
No, dependency tracking still isn't perfect. The reason is that procedures can reference tables by dynamic SQL, dependencies can be broken if objects are dropped and re-created (I've written about how dependencies can break here). The best "first sweep" I have come to rely on is:
SELECT OBJECT_NAME([object_id])
FROM sys.sql_modules
WHERE LOWER(definition) LIKE '%table_name%';
Again, this won't find objects that build statements using dynamic SQL, and it can produce false positives because table_name could be simplistic and part of other object or parameter names, or included only in comments or commented-out code.
You can also check for plans that reference a table using sys.dm_exec_cached_plans and related DMFs/DMVs but note that this won't find any plans that have rolled out of the cache.
Using SQL Search, you can search for the column name and find all the stored procedures where it is used.
It's a Third Party tool and that is Red Gate SQL Search
Features
Find fragments of SQL text within stored procedures, functions, views
and more
Quickly navigate to objects wherever they happen to be on a server
Find all references to an object
Hope this will help you.
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I know it is best practise to use the sproc, [SSISDB].[catalog].[set_environment_variable_value] to update existing Environment Variables.
However, can somebody explain why I can't just run UPDATES on the [SSISDB].[internal].[envrionment_variables] table?
What's the risk here and how is it any different from updating the old SSIS_Configrations table when using the old package deployment method?
It's faster and easier to mass update variables with a single UPDATE, than create a CURSOR to loop through and run the SPROC.
You can review the code of the set_environment_variable_value procedure and notice that it handles many scenarios - such as different datatypes, encrypting sensitive parameters, rollbacks, etc.
Another reason : SSIS catalog structure and envrionment_variables can look different in the newer versions, so your single update statement may not work after an upgrade.
So I'm kind of stumped.
I have a MySql project that involves a database table that is being manipulated and altered by scripts on a regular basis. This isn't so unusual, but I need to automate a script to run (after hours, when changes aren't happening) that would save the result of the following:
SHOW CREATE TABLE [table-name];
This command generates the ready-to-run script that would create the (empty) table in it's current state.
In SqlWorkbench and Navicat it displays the result of this SHOW command in a field in a result set, as if it was the result of a SELECT statement.
Ideally, I want to take into a variable in a procedure, and change the table name; adding a '-mm-dd-yyyy' to end of it, so I could show the day-to-day changes in the table schema on an active server.
However, I can't seem to be able to do that. Unlike a Select result set, I can't use it like that. I can't get it in a variable, or save it to a temporary, or physical table or anything. I even tried to return this as a value in a function, from which I got the error that a function cannot return a result set - which explains why it's displayed like one in the db clients.
I suspect that this is a security thing in MySql? If so, I can totally understand why and see the dangers exposed to a hacker, but this isn't a public-facing box at all, and I have full root/admin access to it. Hopefully somebody has already tackled this problem before.
This is on MySql 8, btw.
[Edit] After my first initial comments, I need to add; I'm not concerned about the data with this question whatsoever, but rather just these schema changes.
What I'd really -like- to do is this:
SELECT `Create Table` FROM ( SHOW CREATE TABLE carts )
But this seems to be mixing apples and oranges, as SHOW and SELECT aren't created equal, although they both seem to return the same sort of object
You cannot do it in the MySQL stored procedure language.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/show.html says:
Many MySQL APIs (such as PHP) enable you to treat the result returned from a SHOW statement as you would a result set from a SELECT; see Chapter 29, Connectors and APIs, or your API documentation for more information. In addition, you can work in SQL with results from queries on tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database, which you cannot easily do with results from SHOW statements. See Chapter 26, INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables.
What is absent from this paragraph is any mention of treating the results of SHOW commands like the results of SELECT queries in other contexts. There is no support for setting a variable to the result of a SHOW command, or using INTO, or running SHOW in a subquery.
So you can capture the result returned by a SHOW command in a client programming language (Java, Python, PHP, etc.), and I suggest you do this.
In theory, all the information used by SHOW CREATE TABLE is accessible in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables (mostly TABLES and COLUMNS), but formatting a complete CREATE TABLE statement is a non-trivial exercise, and I wouldn't attempt it. For one thing, there are new features in every release of MySQL, e.g. new data types and table options, etc. So even if you could come up with the right query to produce this output, in a couple of years it would be out of date and it would be a thankless code maintenance chore to update it.
The closest solution I can think of, in pure MySQL, is to regularly clone the table structure (no data), like so:
CREATE TABLE backup_20220618 LIKE my_table;
As far as I know, to get your hands on the full explicit CREATE TABLE statement, as a string, would require the use of an external tool like mysqldump which was designed specifically for that purpose.
I have two databases: Sybase and MySQL. I need to export records to MySql when these are inserted in Sybase or export in some scheduled event.
I've tried with output statement but this can not be used in triggers or procedures.
Any suggestion to solve this problem?
(disclaimer, I've done similar things previously, but by no means would I consider the answer below the state of the art - just one possible approach
google around something like 'cross-database replication' or 'cross rdbms replication' to see who's done this before.
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I would first of all see if you can't score an ETL tool do the job without too much work. There are free open source ones and even things like Microsoft SSIS might work on non-MS databases.
If not, I would split this into different steps.
Find an appropriate Sybase output command that exports a subset of rows from one or more tables. By subset I mean you need to be able to add a WHERE clause, not just do a full table dump.
Use an appropriate MySQL import script/command to load the data gotten out of step #1. You may need to cycle back and forth between the 2 till you have something that works manually.
Write a Sybase trigger to insert lookup keys into a to-export table. You want to store at least the tablename & source Sybase table's keys for each inserted row. Use column names like key1_char, key2_char, not the actual column names, that makes it easier to extend to other source tables as needed. keep trigger processing as light as possible. What about updates btw?
Write a scheduled batch on Sybase side to run step #1 for the rows flagged in #3.
Write a scheduled batch on Mysql to import ,via #2, the results of #4. Or kick it off from #4.
Another approach is to do the #3 flagging bit as needed, but use to drive one scheduled batch that SELECTs data from Sybase and INSERTs it into mysql directly.
You'll have to pick up the data from Sybase's SELECT and bind it manually to the INSERT of mysql. But you probably get finer control over whats going on and you don't have to juggle 2 batches. That's what I think a clever ETL would already be doing on your behalf. Any half clever scripting language like php, python or ruby ought to handle it easily. Especially important if you have things like surrogate/auto-generated keys.
Keep in mind that in both cases you'll have to either delete the to-export rows that you've successfully inserted or flag them as done.
I'm trying to program a database, and I'm using a mix of parameterized queries and stored procedures. Mostly I'm using pqs inside sprocs. I'm doing each correctly, and getting the proper results. However, each time I log out of the mysql server and back in, the sprocs are still there, but it acts like I never programmed any pqs. It only works if I do the pqs all over again from scratch. I haven't seen anything either in lectures or online about pqs being temporary, so is there something I'm doing wrong? Thank you.
You have an apples-and-asterisks category confusion.
Apples: Stored procedures are persistent server-side objects with names in the name space of a particular MySQL database. Just like table definitions, views, and table contents, they are part of your database.
Asterisks: Parameterized queries (prepared statements) are client-side objects that are created underneath a particular connection to the DBMS. They're objects in the class hierarchy of whatever connection library (in whatever language) you happen to be using. Their lifetimes cannot exceed the lifetime of the connection.
If your app happens to be using more than one connection (for example, if it's multithreaded) you need to create your parameterized query for the particular connection you're using.
I have two databses on a SQL Server -- one for development (call it "TestData"), and one for production (call it "LiveData"). I make changes to TestData -- typically adding tables or adding new fields to existing tables (rarely dropping anything) and creating or modifying Stored Procedures. At some point, I would like to update the LiveData tables, stored procedures, etc. with the changes made to TestData. I only want this to affect the schema, not the actual data. What is the best way to do this? I am new to SQL Server, so the more detailed the explanation, the better.
edit: I know there are third-party programs out there, but I'm looking into ways to do this without a separate software, just using scripts, etc.
You might want to take a look at redgate SQL Compare.
DBComparer is a great free utility to compare schemas. It is a little buggy and crashes sometimes, but other than that it works great.