https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-dotnet-backend-use-existing-sql-database/
I have been following this tutorial but it ends up creating a new table emptying all the data. How do I make it uses existing values inside an existing table?
The tutorial indeed populate example data using Database.SetInitializer(new ExistingInitializer()); but it wont make new DB.
Make sure you have correct connection string Name=MS_TableConnectionString (step 4 in Exploring the existing database model) so it points out to you existing DB
Edit:
First of all, comment out database seeder Database.SetInitializer(new ExistingInitializer()); and to query your existing data use GetAllMobileCustomers in MobileCustomerController or GetAllMobileOrders in MobileOrderController it will give you IQueryable of MobileCustomer of MobileOrder object, use that object as you wish
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This is actually the first time I'm posting something here. The problem I have is driving me crazy since I know such functionality exists elsewhere.
I'm trying to find a way to create new tables on the fly on node js using sequelize without having to restart the database (a DB implemented with SQL).
Moreover, I also need to create new associations between those new table and existing ones.
Why do I need this:
I'm creating a crm and one of the functionalities I want to add is to let users create new types of objects that could have fields referencing to other preexisting ones.
And I can't just restart the whole database everytime a user is creating a new object or fields.
If you guys know how to achieve that or maybe advising me to build the database with another language I'll go for it.
Thanks!
My question is pretty simple. I am working on Kentico 9 with its SQL Server database which contains several tables which had been added directly from the SQL Management Studio by an external contractor. The fact is that those tables are being used to store custom content which will be displayed for a site, but, in the code they don't have the code for making queries. I mean, they don't have Info and Provider classes.
https://docs.kentico.com/display/K82/Retrieving+database+data+using+ObjectQuery+API
According with this, all tables into the Kentico database can be accessed by invoking methods on these classes, but I don't have it this time.
Something like this, it will not work if I use my table name:
var user = UserInfoProvider.GetUserInfo("administrator");
var items = CustomTableItemProvider.GetItems("MyTable")
.TopN(10)
.WhereEquals("ItemCreatedBy", user.UserID)
.OrderBy("ItemCreatedWhen");
My question is:
can I query any table by its name?
One last thing:
I cannot declared those table as "custom table" because it seems to be a bug in the CMS.
Or you can pull data using your own SQL query:
var ds = ConnectionHelper.ExecuteQuery("select ....", null, QueryTypeEnum.SQLQuery);
Nevertheless I would recommend to create a custom class inside a custom module (much more robust than custom tables) instead and use the generated Info and InfoProvider classes to get and manipulate data.
I think an object has to be registered within the system (created through Kentico UI or API) in order to be pulled from DB with object query.
So I'd choose one of the following options:
Use Entity Framework or something similar to work with that data
Create appropriate custom tables or even custom module and push data there. Not sure why you can't create a custom table... What is an error you're getting?
If you need to present data on the UI only (without processing on the back end) - use just custom queries
Hope this helps.
If you are accessing in code then you could do it the good old fashioned way. If you want to pull data from the database to display on the website you could also do so by creating a custom query and using a transformation to display the fields, then use a repeater on the page to display the transformed data. Alternatively you can use a SQL datasource with a basic repeater, but you still have to create a transformation to display the data. Both methods allow you to access the data in the tables from within the CMS UI, no need to touch any code behind.
If your objective is to read data from these database tables to transform on webpage e.g. using CMS Repeater webpart, you can simply create custom query(s) in Kentico itself and load data using it. You can find the detail here on how to create custom custom queries and load data using it.
On the other hand you can also write your custom classes and define the custom methods where you can pull data using your own SQL query like this:
var ds = ConnectionHelper.ExecuteQuery("select ....", null, QueryTypeEnum.SQLQuery);
Lastly I don't think there should be any issue to create custom table instead of those direct DB tables, only thing we have to ensure code name of custom table should be unique means don't try to use exact same name because it'll cause exception due to same table name already exist in DB. You can please share exception you getting while creating custom table so that I can help you out further.
I'm developing an ASP.NET MVC 4.5 project using EF 6 Code First to an Existing Database. I would like to create some new tables with foreign key relationships to one of the tables in the dbcontext I've created. I've altered and added columns in that original table, creating several migrations. There is real data in that table.
I would prefer to create the new tables in the database, but don't see how EF would generate a model for me. I can code the model myself, but don't see any documentation about how I would add it to the context class generated by EF. And then the migrations would be out of whack.
So I'm thinking that the best thing to do would be to delete all the migrations, delete the context class and drop the migrations table. Then I could start from scratch with an initial migration. Am I missing some gotcha? Is there a better way?
FWIW to others facing this dilemma, I figured it out. First I got rid of all the migrations, following the 100+ up-voted answer here: Reset Entity-Framework Migrations
Second, I created new the tables and constraints I needed in the database.
Third, I created a new entity in my solution and generated model classes from the database. I changed calls from the old entity to the new entity.The generator overwrote the model for the original table, but since I have all the annotations in version control, it is trivial to paste them in.
If I need to, I can enable migrations again.
Hope this helps.
With Entity Framework it is possible to enable migrations and create migration steps. But is there an intermediate way where it is possible to change the models, and take care of database schema changes yourself? I don't want to drop the database, because there are future production schenario's.
Now - without enable migrations - I use a code first, and when I create another property in a DbSet - lets assume for example in table 'ExistingTable' int NewField {get; set;}
And when in SQL I update my schema with
Alter table ExistingTable add column NewField int not null
the database knows existence of the new field, the Entity Framework / C# knows the property, but when running, there is some hidden check that still want's to drop my database because of the model change.
Question: can I overwrite a certain setting, in such a way that intial 'Code First' can be transformed to database first?
Removing the __MigrationHistory table from the database (Azure) did work fine for me. I made my (simple) database changes myself and published the code. It all runs fine. There is an alternative see EF Code First Migrations Deployment to an Azure Cloud Service. For a simple one-way patch (and no change history needed) removing the __MigrationHistory works fine.
I have a SQL server with 50 databases. Each one has the exact same schema.
I used the awesome Subsonic 2.2 create the DAL based on one of them.
I need to loop though a list of database names and connect to each one and perform an update one at a time.
If there a way to alter how subsonic uses the connection string. I believe I would need to store the connection string in memory that way it can keep changing.
Is this possible?
I tried doing a
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["theConnStrName"].ConnectionString = updated-connection-string-here;
.. but that did not work
thanks!
Subsonic was designed primarily for one database only.
I've done multiple databases a couple of ways. I had posted a complete sample for creating providers on the fly in the old forums for subsonic. Those posts are gone now. What you can try is set up one provider in the config file (yourProviderName) with a dummy connection string just to initialize subsonic, then set the actual connection string as needed in your code. This only works with one database at a time but I think this is what you needed. If you want to use multiple databases at the same time, and involves more code and some changes to the subsonic 2.x core.
DataProvider provider = DataService.GetInstance(yourProviderName);
foreach(string connString in connectionStrings)
{
provider.DefaultConnectionString = connString;
DataService.Provider = provider;
// ... do stuff
}
I don't think it's easy to fix without creating a SubSonic provider for each database.
Instead I would put the SubSonic-source as a project in the solution and debug my way to the best and most clean place to extend the code wwith some sort of connnection string dictionary list and functionality to set the one you want at a given time.