Recital is a dynamic programming language with an embedded high performance database engine particularly well suited for the development and deployment of high transaction throughput applications.
The Recital database engine is not a standalone process with which the application program communicates. Instead, the Recital database is an integral part of any applications developed in Recital.
Recital implements most of the SQL-99 standard for SQL, but also provides lower level navigational data access for performing high transaction throughput. It is the choice of the application developer whether to use SQL, navigational data access, or a combination of both depending upon the type of application being developed.
The Recital database engine, although operating as an embedded database in the user process, multiple users and other background processes may access the same data concurrently. Read accesses are satisfied in parallel. Recital uses automatic record level locking when performing database updates. This provides for a high degree of database concurrency and superior application performance and differentiates the Recital database from other embeddable databases such as sqlite that locks the entire database file during writing.
Key features of the Recital scripting language include:
- High performance database application scripting language
- Modern object-oriented language features
- Easy to learn, easy to use
- Fast, just-in-time compiled
- Loosely-typed
- Garbage collected
- Static arrays, Associative arrays and objects
- Develop desktop or web applications
- Cross-platform support
- Extensive built-in functions
- Superb built-in SQL command integration
- Navigational data access for the most demanding applications
- Scripting language is upward compatible with FoxPRO
Key features of the Recital database include:
- A broad subset of ANSI SQL 99, as well as extensions
- Cross-platform support
- Stored procedures
- Triggers
- Cursors
- Updatable Views
- System Tables
- Query caching
- Sub-SELECTs (i.e. nested SELECTs)
- Embedded database library
- Fault tolerant clustering support
- Chronological data versioning with database timelines
- Optional DES3 encrypted data
- Hot backup
- Client drivers for ODBC, JDBC and .NET
sernet.de maintain the latest Samba releases in a yum repository, allowing for an easy and painless install or upgrade of Samba on your yum based Linux distribution.
To install the latest available Samba execute the following commands at the shell:
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d # wget http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental/centos/5/sernet-samba.repo # yum install samba
To upgrade an existing Samba install:
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d # wget http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/experimental/centos/5/sernet-samba.repo ## Note: edit sernet-samba.repo and add the line "gpgcheck=false" otherwise ## it will not install as it is not signed
# yum update samba
Note: These steps will install the very latest build available at sernet.de.
If you require a less bleeding edge version of Samba, use the "tested" repo. This can be found at the following URL: http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/tested/rhel/5
./configure CFLAGS='-arch x86_64' APXSLDFLAGS='-arch x86_64' --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxsThen you must pass the these additional flags to the apxs command in order to generate a Universal Binary shared module.
-Wl,-dynamic -Wl,'-arch ppc' -Wl,'-arch ppc64' -Wl,'-arch i386' -Wl,'-arch x86_64' -Wc,-dynamic -Wc,'-arch ppc' -Wc,'-arch ppc64' -Wc,'-arch i386' -Wc,'-arch x86_64'If you then do a file command on the shared module it should return;
$ file mod_recital.so mod_recital2.2.so: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures mod_recital2.2.so (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O bundle ppc mod_recital2.2.so (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit bundle ppc64 mod_recital2.2.so (for architecture i386): Mach-O bundle i386 mod_recital2.2.so (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64The apache module files are stored in the /usr/libexec/apache2/ directory on a default apache install on the Mac and the configuration file is /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
alias pwd "? default()"
alias cp "copy file "
alias mv "rename "
alias rm "erase "
alias ls "run('ls $0')"
alias ps "run('ps $0')"
alias grep "run('grep $0')"
alias cd "set default to $1"
alias cls "clear screen"
These commands can now be used inside the Recital command window just as you would use them at the linux prompt, including the ability to pipe commands together.
ls -l | grep .prg ps -elf | grep db.exeThe run() function that is used to run the shell command as specified in the alias command will capture output and display it in a text viewer. If you want to run the command and display the contents full screen, then specify true as the third parameter to the run().
run("command", true, true)
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | the command line to run |
| 2 | True if output should be displayed in a text area (default True) |
| 3 | True if the output should be displayed full screen (default False) |
| Macro | Description |
|---|---|
| $0 | the command line following the command name |
| $1..$n | the arguments given to the command |
When installing nomachine on redhat 5.3 64-bit be sure to:
- Make sure you have installed the 64-bit packages as the 32-bit ones will not work.
- add the hostname to /etc/hosts
- Check "Disable encryption of all traffic" (in configuration / advanced tab)
- add the hostname to /etc/hosts
- make sure the host IP is not specified as 127.0.0.1 line
- Uncheck "Disable encryption of all traffic" (in configuration / advanced tab)
Here's how to set up field validation based on dynamic values from another table.
Using the products.dbf table from the southwind sample database, validation can be added to the categoryid field to ensure it matches an existing categoryid from the categories.dbf table.
open database southwindThe rlookup() function checks whether an expression exists in the index (master or specified) of the specified table . An attempt to update categoryid with a value not in the list will give an error: Validation on field 'CATEGORYID' failed.
alter table products add constraint;
(categoryid set check rlookup(products.categoryid,categories))
If you have access to the Recital Workbench, you can use the modify structure worksurface to add and alter your dictionary entries, including a customized error message if required.
