I need to compare two *.sql files which have serval changes. There are some changes like date and time which should be ignored. BC shows differences when just the time changes like:
File one: 13.06.14, 10:42 Files two: 13.06.14, 10:43.
How can i script it that BC ignores the date and time when comparing the two files?
I hope this will help, you can find an explanation hire:
Define Unimportant Text in Beyond Compare
There is also a very useful video explaining the steps to define unimportant text in Beyond Compare on that link.
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Looking for a shortcut here. I am pretty adept with SQL database engines and ERPs. I should clarify... I mean databases like MS SQL, MySQL, postresql, etc.
One of the things that I like to do when I am working on a new project is to get a feel for what is being utilized and what isn't. In T-SQL this is pretty easy. I just query the information schema and get a row count of all the tables and filter out the ones having rowcount = 0. I know this isn't truly a precise row count, but it does give me an idea of what is in use.
So I recently started at a new company and one of their systems is running on UniData. This is a pretty radical shift from mainstream databases and there isn't a lot of help out there. I was wondering if anybody knew of a command to do the same thing listed above in UniBasic/UniQuery/whatever else.
Which tables, files, are heavily populated and which ones are not?
You can start with a special "table" (or file in Unidata terminology) named VOC - it will have a list of all the other files that are in your current "database" (aka account), as well as a bunch of other things.
To get a list of files in (or pointed to) the current account:
:SORT VOC WITH F1 = "F]" "L]" "DIR" F1 F2
Try HELP CREATE.FILE if you're curious about the difference between F and LF and DIR.
Once you have a list of files, weed out the ones named *TEMP* or *WORK* and start digging into the ones that seem important. There are other ways to get at what's important (e.g using triggers or timestamps), but browsing isn't a bad idea to see what conventions are used.
Once you have a file that looks interesting (let's say CUSTOMERS), you can look at the dictionary of that file to see
:SORT DICT CUSTOMERS F1 F2 BY F1 BY F2 USING DICT VOC
It can help to create something like F2.LONG in DICT VOC to increase the display size up from 15 characters.
Now you have a list of "columns" (aka fields or attributes), you're looking for D-type attributes that will tell you what columns are in the file. V or I-type's are calculations
https://github.com/ianmcgowan/SCI.BP/blob/master/PIVOT is helpful with profiling when you see an attribute that looks interesting and you want to see what the data looks like.
http://docs.rocketsoftware.com/nxt/gateway.dll/RKBnew20/unidata/previous%20versions/v8.1.0/unidata_userguide_v810.pdf has some generally good information on the concepts and there are many other online manuals available there. It can take a lot of reading to get to the right thing if you don't know the terminology.
How to merge several TS files file to one TS file with correct timestamps?
I can just merge the files to one without touching data. This will produce a playable file, but with incorrect timestamps, so timeline will not be shown (in VLC for example). So I need to recalculate timestamps, somehow using gstreamer/ffmpeg or any command line tool for that and possibly prevent unnecessary reencoding. Thanks!
I assume you are talking about PTS/DTS that you might have to tweak:
Check setpts and asetpts from ffmpeg doc
An example of how to use it in this related question
I have two Tables:
Articles(artID, artContents, artPublishDate, artCategoryID, publisherID).
ArticleUpdated(upArtID, upArtContents, upArtEditedData, upArtPublishDate, upArtCategory, upArtOriginalArticleID, upPublisherID)
A user logging in to the application and update an article's
contents at (artContents) column. I want to know about:
Which Changes the user made to the article's contents?
I want to store both versions of the Article, Original version and Edited Version!
What should I do for doing above two task:
Any necessary changes into the tables?
The query for getting exact edited data of (artContents).
(The exact edited data means, that there may 5000 characters in the coloumns, the user may edit 200 characters in the middle or somewhere else in column's characters, I want exact those edited characters, before of edit and after of edit)
Note: I am using ASP.NET with C# for Developing
You are not going to be able to do the exact editing using SQL. You need an algorithm such as the Unix diff on files (which works on the line level). At the character level, the algorithm would be some variation of Levenshtein distance. If diff meets your needs, you could download it, write a stored-procedure to call it, and then use it in the database. This would be rather expensive.
The part of your question of maintaining the different versions is much easier. I would add two colmnns EffDate and EndDate onto each record. You can get the most recent version by looking for EndDate is NULL and find the version active at any given time. Merge is generally useful for maintaining such a table.
Basically this type for requirement needs custom logging.
The example what you have provided i.e. "The exact edited data means, that there may 5000 characters in the coloumns, the user may edit 200 characters in the middle or somewhere else in column's characters, I want exact those edited characters, before of edit and after of edit"
Can have a case that user updates particular words from different place from the text.
You can use http://nlog-project.org/ for logging, its a fast and robust tool that normally we use for doing .net logging.
Also you can take a look
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38756/Two-Simple-Approaches-to-WinForms-Dirty-Tracking
Asp.net Event for change tracking of entities
What would be the best way to implement change tracking on an object
Above urls will clear some air, on how to do it.
You would obviously need to track down and store every change.
I have a ETL which give text file output and I have to check the those text content has the word error or bad using pentaho.
Is there any simple way to find it?
If you are trying to process a number of files, you can use a Get Filenames step to get all the filenames. Then, if your text files are small, you can use a Get File Content step to get the whole file as one row, then use a Java Filter or other matching step (RegEx, e.g.) to search for the words.
If your text files are too big but line-based or otherwise in a fixed format (which it likely is if you used a text file output step), you can use a Text File Input step to get the lines, then a matcher step (see above) to find the words in the line. Then you can use a Filter Rows step to choose just those rows that contain the words, then Select Values to choose just the filename, then a Sort Rows on the filename, then a Unique Rows step. The result should be a list of filenames whose contents contain the search words.
This may seem like a lot of steps, but Pentaho Data Integration or PDI (aka Kettle) is designed to be a flow of steps with distinct (and very reusable) functionality. A smaller but less "PDI" method is to write a User Defined Java Class (or other scripting) step to do all the work. This solution has a smaller number of steps but is not very configurable or reusable.
If you're writing these files out yourself, then dont you already know the content? So scan the fields at the point at which you already have them in memory.
If you're trying to see if Pentaho has written an error to the file, then you should use error handling on the output step.
Finally PDI is not a text searching tool. If you really need to do this, then probably best bet is good old grep..
Does anyone have any experience adding their own data to GapMinder, the really cool software that Hans Rosling uses in his TED talks? I have an array od objects in JSON that would be easy to show in moving bubbles. This would be really cool.
I can see that my Ubuntu box has what looks like data in /opt/Gapminder Desktop/share/assets/graphs/world, but I would need to figure out:
How to add a measure to a graph
How to add a data series
How to set the time range of the data
Identify the measures to follow at each time step
and so on.
Just for the record: if you want to use Gapminder with your own dataset, you have to convert your data in a format suitable to Gapminder. More specifically, looking in the assets/graphs/world, you will have to:
Edit the file overview.xml, which contains the tree structure of all the indicators (just copy/paste an entry and specify your own data);
Convert your data copying the structure of the xml files in that directory (this is the tricky part): you can specify some metadata in the preamble, and then specify your own data series, with something like:
<t1 m="i20,50.0,99.0,1992" d="90.0, ... ,50.0, ..."/> where i20 is the country id, which is followed by the minima and maxima of the series, and the year it refers to.
In my humble opinion, Gapminder is a great app but it definitely needs more work on integration with other datasets. Way better to use Google Motion Chart as you did, or MooGraph (site and doc), which is unfortunately not as great as Gapminder.
#Stefano
the information you provided is very valuable. Is somewhere available a detailed specification of the XML files containing the data?
Anyway, just to enrich your response, I also found that:
overview.xml file
The link between Nations and their IDs is in this file
The structure of the menus for the selection of the indicators is also in the same file (at the bottom) under the section <indicatorCategorization>
The structure of the datafile XML
For each line the year represents the first year of the serie, and then the values follow one per year, comma separated.
Grazie,
Max
I ended up using the google motion chart API. I ended up with this.