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In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital, details on how to use the Client Drivers provided with the Recital Database Server to work with local or remote server-side JDBC data sources.
Overview
The Recital Universal .NET Data Provider provides connectivity to the Recital Database Server running on any supported platform (Windows, Linux, Unix, OpenVMS) using the RecitalConnection object.
The Recital Universal JDBC Driver provides the same functionality for java applications.
The Recital Universal ODBC Driver provides the same functionality for applications that use ODBC.
Each of the above Client Drivers use a connection string to describe connections parameters.
The basic format of a connection string consists of a series of keyword/value pairs separated by semicolons. The equals sign (=) connects each keyword and its value.
The following table lists the valid names for keyword/values.
| Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Data Source |
The name or network address of the instance of the Recital Database Server which to connect to. | |
| Directory | The target directory on the remote server where data to be accessed resides. This is ignored when a Database is specified. | |
|
Encrypt |
false | When true, DES3 encryption is used for all data sent between the client and server. |
| Initial Catalog -or- Database |
The name of the database on the remote server. | |
| Password -or- Pwd |
The password used to authenticate access to the remote server. | |
| User ID | The user name used to authenticate access to the remote server. | |
|
Connection Pooling |
false | Enable connection pooling to the server. This provides for one connection to be shared. |
| Logging | false | Provides for the ability to log all server requests for debugging purposes |
| Rowid | true | When Rowid is true (the default) a column will be post-fixed to each SELECT query that is a unique row identifier. This is used to provide optimised UPDATE and DELETE operations. If you use the RecitalSqlGrid, RecitalSqlForm, or RecitalSqlGridForm components then this column is not visible but is used to handle updates to the underlying data source. |
| Logfile | The name of the logfile for logging | |
| Gateway |
Opens an SQL gateway(Connection) to a foreign SQL data source on
the remote server.
servertype@nodename:username/password-database e.g. oracle@nodename:username/password-database mysql@nodename:username/password-database postgresql@nodename:username/password-database -or- odbc:odbc_data_source_name_on_server oledb:oledb_connection_string_on_server jdbc:jdbc_driver_path_on_server;jdbc:Recital:args |
To connect to a server-side JDBC data source, you ue the gateway=value key/value pair in the following way.
gateway=jdbc:jdbc_driver_path_on_server;jdbc:Recital:args
You can find examples of connection strings for most ODBC and OLE DB data sources by clicking here.
Example in C# using the Recital Universal .NET Data Provider:
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// include the references below
using System.Data;
using Recital.Data;
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The following code example creates an instance of a DataAdapter that
// uses a Connection to the Recital Database Server, and a gateway to
// Recital Southwind database. It then populates a DataTable
// in a DataSet with the list of customers via the JDBC driver.
// The SQL statement and Connection arguments passed to the DataAdapter
// constructor are used to create the SelectCommand property of the
// DataAdapter.
public DataSet SelectCustomers()
{
string gateway = "jdbc:/usr/java/lib/RecitalJDBC/Recital/sql/RecitalDriver;"+
"jdbc:Recital:Data Source=localhost;database=southwind";
RecitalConnection swindConn = new
RecitalConnection("Data Source=localhost;gateway=\""+gateway+"\");
RecitalCommand selectCMD = new
RecitalCommand("SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName FROM Customers", swindConn);
selectCMD.CommandTimeout = 30;
RecitalDataAdapter custDA = new RecitalDataAdapter();
custDA.SelectCommand = selectCMD;
swindConn.Open();
DataSet custDS = new DataSet();
custDA.Fill(custDS, "Customers");
swindConn.Close();
return custDS;
}
Example in Java using the Recital Universal JDBC Driver:
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // standard imports required by the JDBC driver import java.sql.*; import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.math.BigDecimal; import Recital.sql.*; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The following code example creates a Connection to the Recital // Database Server, and a gateway to the Recital Southwind database. // It then retrieves all the customers via the JDBC driver. public void SelectCustomers() { // setup the Connection URL for JDBC String gateway = "jdbc:/usr/java/lib/RecitalJDBC/Recital/sql/RecitalDriver;"+ "jdbc:Recital:Data Source=localhost;database=southwind"; String url = "jdbc:Recital:Data Source=localhost;gateway=\""+gateway+"\";
// load the Recital Universal JDBC Driver new RecitalDriver(); // create the connection Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url); // create the statement Statement stmt = con.createStatement(); // perform the SQL query ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName FROM Customers"); // fetch the data while (rs.next()) { String CompanyID = rs.getString("CustomerID"); String CompanyName = rs.getString("CompanyName"); // do something with the data... } // Release the statement stmt.close(); // Disconnect from the server con.close(); }
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
SET DATADIR TO [ <directory> ]This command is used to specify a directory where database tables, memos, indexes, and dictionary files are located. When a table is being opened this directory is searched first before the current directory and the file search path to locate the table and its associated files. This allows the database tables to be relocated to a different file system without the need to change an existing application.
Here's how to set up field validation for a field with a small static number of acceptable values.
Using the example.dbf table from the southwind sample database, validation can be added to the title field to ensure it matches one of a list values.
open database southwindThe inlist() function checks whether the specified expression exists in the comma-separated list which follows. An attempt to update title with a value not in the list will give an error: Validation on field 'TITLE' failed.
alter table example add constraint;
(title set check inlist(alltrim(title),"Miss","Mr","Mrs","Ms"))
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.

In this article Barry Mavin explains step by step how to setup a Linux HA (High Availability) cluster for the running of Recital applications on Redhat/Centos 5.3 although the general configuration should work for other linux versions with a few minor changes.
The Openfiler NAS/SAN Appliance (NSA) is a Storage Management Operating System / NAS Appliance distribution. It is powered by the Linux 2.6 kernel and Open Source applications such as Apache, Samba, LVM2, ext3, Linux NFS and iSCSI Enterprise Target. Openfiler combines these ubiquitous technologies into a small, easy to manage solution fronted by a powerful web-based management interface. Openfiler allows you to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and/or Storage Area Network (SAN) appliance, using industry-standard hardware, in less than 10 minutes of installation time.
Building upon the popularity of server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Virtual Iron, and Xen, Openfiler can also be deployed as a virtual machine instance or on a bare metal machine.
This deployment flexibility of Openfiler ensures that storage administrators are able to make the best use of system performance and storage capacity resources when allocating and managing networked storage in a multi-platform environment.
Openfiler is ideally suited for use with High Availability Recital applications as it incorporates:
- Heartbeat cluster manager
- drbd disk replication
- CIFS
- NFS
- Software and hardware RAID
- FTP
- rsync
- HTTP/DAV
- iSCSI
- LVM2
- Multiple NIC bonding for High Availability
- Powerful web-based GUI
If you have a live linux site that is running vmware virtual machines, you can pause the virtual machines when you want to perform a backup, I use acronis for linux which does incremental backups and you can specify a command to run before and after the backup, this allows backups to be performed at scheduled times daily without any intervention. In my examples below, the virtual machine i want to control is in /root/vmware/Recital/Recital.vmx
To pause the virtual machine on linux:
# vmrun pause /root/vmware/Recital/Recital.vmx
and then to unpause after the backup has completed:
# vmrun unpause /root/vmware/Recital/Recital.vmx
That is basicallty it, no need to attend the backup and it can be perfomed at a suitable time so no users are affected.
Incidentally, vmrun lets you startup a virtual machine at system startup too, without needing the GUI:
# vmrun start /root/vmware/Recital/Recital.vmx
Or alternatively stop it:
# vmrun stop /root/vmware/Recital/Recital.vmx
There are lots of other capabilities of this command, running applications inside the virtual machine etc etc. For full details just type vmrun in a terminal window.