I need to migrate a customer's site which happens to be hosted in a remote Win32 environment with Sitebuilder, Plesk, SQL Server and ASP or ASP.Net, I'm not sure.
I'm used to LAMP environments, so I don't know what to do with all the files in this server. Sitebuilder and SQL Server are also new to me.
I only have access to the FTP files and to the Plesk panel control, but it doesn't even acknowledge the existence of any SQL Server database (as it usually does with MySQL databases).
So far I've only been able to think of these two options:
Code an ASP script that writes down the database content into CSV files (wouldn't know where to start).
Code a script that retrieves the data directly from the HTML pages (long, painful, error prone and not useful to access data available only to logged in users).
So my question is: from your experience, knowledge of this platform, and point of view, which would be my best option?
Thank you very much in advance in my first question here. Regards,
UPDATE: I've managed to access the server (Windows 2008 server + SQL server 2008) using remote desktop. I guess I should be able to export the database now. I'll check Management Studio to see if it can help in the process.
It sounds odd that it doesn't support remote connections, but if you want to do it from within your asp-pages, the following links might be good starting points:
Want to script all objects which depend on a SQL Server table
http://www.dotnetfunda.com/codes/code32-how-to-generate-create-table-script-for-all-tables-in-sql-server-database.aspx
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/20355/generate-create-script-for-all-indexes
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Where are the Azerothcore Server databases saved once the server is live with characters and changes etc.
I made several versions of the azerothcore folder as I was troubling shooting various modules and each location seems to be tied to the same server databases?
I would like to back up my server and also delete the extra folders.
thanks
AzerothCore uses a MySQL/MariaDB database server, containing 3 databases:
acore_world for the world objects (quests, NPCs, etc..) you probably don't want to backup this (instead you should back up your own custom SQL scripts if any, not the entire world)
acore_characters and acore_auth respectively, everything related to the characters and accounts, you do want to have regular backups of them
There are plenty of ways to backup your MySQL/MariaDB database(s) and you can find plenty of tutorials online about how to do it (it's a generic thing, not strictly related to AzerothCore).
You can try this tool as well, which creates backup and automatically sends them to you via Telegram: https://github.com/azerothcore/telegram-automated-db-backup
I ended up using MySQL Workbench to export the acore_auth and acore_characters separately as self contained sql files, then re-importing them upon server rebuild.
I need to load into sqlserver all of my locally stored email messages. Currently those are thunderbird-based but if i need some sort of export-to-outlook utility, fine, just say the word. I could probably adapt some asp.net (c#) code to access the local messages but doing the google against:
export emails from thunderbird to sql server
import to sqlserver from outlook
and a vast variation there of, is not getting me any closer to either a utility or someone's codeplex project.
it's probably trivial local file access stuff, so it's probably been done a few thousand times and has to have been presented as utility code a few hundred...but how do i find it?
thx
A solution is to setup a virtual machine or a server running linux (debian) or FreeBSD (my favorite). To install postgreSQL and DBmail and to connect through IMAP to DBmail.
With dbmail it is possible to store all email into SQL.
I am building a blog-like publishing system on ASP.NET 4.0 (with EF 4.0) that I want to be very easily deployable/backupable in the first place. I am at a decision point of whether making the system to create a database in an SQL Server and use that (traditionally), or have a App_Data MDF file in the site and just attach to that one with SQL Express. I know the memory/size limitations of Express editions, and I won't be hitting the limits as this is not a performance-critical business application or any serious stuff. Just a simple CMS with blogs/writings/photos (actual photos are NOT saved in database, just their paths are saved in MDF) and that's it. I see no problem using MDF, but I'm not an expert on the topic too as I've never worked/created a website using MDF file. I always deployed on the SQL Server, but I don't want to deal with users/roles/permissions and the last thing that I want to have a user having installation problems due to database settings.
What should I go with? Any problems that I would face with MDF? Recommendations?
IF you use SQL Server Express - which is a server - I would always opt for a "real" database approach: attach your database to the server, access it by its database name, deploy SQL scripts to update it.
That "attach DB from file path" always seemed like a half-baked and rather messy kludge to me.....
If you don't need that kind of power - investigate SQL Server Compact Edition which is a one-file only, in-process database. It has its limitations - no stored procedures, doesn't support certain data types like VARCHAR(MAX) or XML - but for easier scenarios, it's perfect and easy to use - just deploy it along your app. It's single-user, e.g. you don't share the data between several clients, it's a local store for each user/app on its own
My over all goal is to upload a very simple ASP.NET web site created in C# and using a SQLEXPRESS DB to a hosting provider via FTP.
I understand that I can get all of my ASPX, .CS, master pages and image files with no problem. Problem I am having and reason I am here is because I cant simply pop my MDF file into my hosting provider's (Verio Hosting) site.
On the web I ran across a post by Scott Gu. In his post he wrote about converting a MDF into a .SQL file which you can execute from a web site. See below....
If your hoster has no usable HTML web
admin tool for allowing you to easily
manage your SQL database, then you can
also just write a simple ASP.NET page
that you FTP (along with your .SQL
file) to your web-site and then hit to
read the .SQL file on the server in as
text, and then pass it as a string to
ADO.NET to execute. This will give
you the same result as the query
analyzer above - and fully create your
database for you.
I created the .SQL file and I am capable of popping this .SQL file into my website. My question to you guys is how do I create that simple ASP.NET page that I can then hit to read, and then do everything else that Scott mentioned in the passage above????
EDIT: I found out that that I can just re-create my DB by remotely logging in to my hosting providers SQL server via SQL Mgt Studio. I dont want to do this for two reasons 1.) It feels cheap knowing that there is a much cooler way to do this, and 2.) I dont know how to re-create the ASPNETDB.MDF that I use for my user database that ASP.NET created for me.
My question to you guys is how do I
create that simple ASP.NET page that I
can then hit to read, and then do
everything else that Scott mentioned
in the passage above????
Which part of the process don't you understand?
It's just a regular *.aspx web form; you do all of the work in the code behind.
BTW, when sending commands to SQL Server via ADO.NET, keep in mind that ADO.NET doesn't understand "GO" statements; if your script contains them, you will either have to parse them out and submit batches accordingly, or arrange to invoke a command-line tool like sqlcmd from your page, if your hosting provider allows it.
You simply need to have the ASP page read in the .SQL file, which is a series of SQL queries to be executed. Loop though the contents of the file, running each query in turn. The queries will create the db schema, insert the data, etc.
I need to manipulate some tables in a JET database housed on a web-server:
check existing indexes
change table cluster/primary key
see what tables exist
rename tables
add tables
drop tables
browse data
etc
I don't have the option of installing PlaneDisaster or Access (even if i had it) on the local machine.
I've already written a generic web-based query tool. I'd rather not have to get into writing a whole web-based database maintenance GUI. Someone must have done this already, and probably many times over.
A partial answer might be Compare'Em
http://home.gci.net/~mike-noel/CompareEM-LITE/CompareEMscreens/CompareEM-About.htm The Pro version allows you to create SQL statements to update the Access database file. This will allow you to generate the differences between one version and a newer version.
His website isn't very clear but as I recall the price for the Pro version was $10.
As you say you have already done a generic web based query tool. The problem with JET is that you cannot connect with it as database server like you can do with one SQL server in order to process changes to tables and other maintenance procedures. Jet is is not a client/server RDBMS. You need to have an application in the server to do that for you as you already have done with your generic web based tool, or download the database to your machine. That's why you have done some procedures and locate them in the server as asp pages.
Anyway you can use JetSQLConsole, if you don't want to use Planedisaster or Access, but remember that you need always an application on the server to to the job for you
You can also use access "in your machine" and connect to a database located in a URL (http://myserver/mydatabase.mdb) but remember when you are doing this you are downloading all the database and when you save it you are uploading it again.