[jira] Updated: (DDLUTILS-101) Support the dumping of data from a database into an XML file for each table.

["Guy Davis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DDLUTILS-101?page=all ]

Guy Davis updated DDLUTILS-101:
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    Attachment: multi_files.patch

This includes two new Commands that allow for the dumping of a database to multiple XML files (one per table) and the loading of data from multiple files.  The loading is done similarly as if all the files were in one large XML file, which allows for reference between the tables involved in the load.  (This wasn't supported by the existing WriteDataToDatabase command.

The dump adds an ORDER BY to the SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME consisting of primary keys.  This means the dump is consisent every time and one can diff the dump files between data changes in a human readable format.

> Support the dumping of data from a database into an XML file for each table.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>          Key: DDLUTILS-101
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DDLUTILS-101
>      Project: DdlUtils
>         Type: Improvement

>  Environment: WinXP
> Java 1.5.0_06
> Oracle 10g EE
>     Reporter: Guy Davis
>     Assignee: Thomas Dudziak
>  Attachments: multi_files.patch
>
> We're using DDLUtils to store the schema and setup data required for our application.  We can version the XML files and see diffs of the schema and data after dumping a modified database.  This is a great feature.
> However the single XML file containing all the setup data from our ~25 tables grew to over 3 MB in size and was unwieldy to work with.  In particular, a simple "select * from table" was used to dump the data.  This would result in spurious diffs where the file contents didn't change between dumps but the lines were moved around making a diff unreadable.
> So it would be great if the Ant tasks supported dumping a database to a directory with  one XML for each tables data.  Also, the dump should be ordered by the tables primary keys so that it is possible to easily compare with older versions and see new rows, deleted rows, and changed fields.

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