#Caché

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InterSystems Caché is a multi-model DBMS and application server. See more details here.

Documentation.

Question Rubens Silva · Jul 12, 2017

Greetings, can someone give me some help? I'm trying to use job for a instance method, as it's described here but...
Anyway, I have a method like this:

Method PrepareInstance(path){set ..Tool = ##class(Tool).%New(path)do $System.Event.Signal($zparent)}

That is being called like this:

Method TestPurge() As %Status{job ..PrepareInstance(..GetTestDirectory("../fixtures/_/dummy-project"))::10set msg = $System.Event.Wait("",10)
}

But it fails because:

<METHOD DOES NOT EXIST>zTestPurge+1^UnitTest.Tool.1 *PrepareInstance

Am I missing something or is that

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Question Marco Blom · Jul 7, 2017

HI Community,

I do have a table with quite some names written in Uppercase:

To simply correct this, I have created a button with some code behind it.:

ClientMethod convertToTitle() [ Language = javascript ]
{
    
    var ctrl zen('Relation');
tVar ctrl.getValue();
     
tVar this.StringConvert(tVar)
    zenPage.getComponentById('Relation').setValue(tVar)
}
ClientMethod StringConvert(str) [ Language = javascript ]
{
    ///alert (str)
    str str.substring(0,1).toLowerCase() tVar.substring(1).toLowerCase();
    ///alert (str)
    var pieces str.split(" ");
    for ( var i 0; i pieces.

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Question Mike Kadow · Jul 11, 2017

I am working with Caché Relationships.

I know how to iterate through the One side of the relationship and for each One iterate through all the various Manys.

What I have been trying to figure out, is the code (I can put into a Class) that will start at the top of the Manys, iterate down and for each of the Manys, pull the associated One.

I can do this with SQL or Globals, but I want to use only Class type code.

Is that clear? Any help?

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Question Rubens Silva · Jul 11, 2017

You might find it useful or not. It depends on what you can imagine it to be used with, like I had to.

Either way, I created a lib that can fetch environment variables from a file or from the OS where Caché is running.

Mostly know as dotenv. Many languages have it, so why not Caché?
The usage is pretty simple:
If you want to use OS env vars exclusively, just use the method:

##class(DotEnv.Parser).FromOS()

Otherwise, if you want to specify a .env file containing your variables to complement the OS ones use the method:

##class(DotEnv.Parser).
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Question John Matson · Jul 10, 2017

Greetings,

I am working on the first of many triggers which will have identical code upon row insertion or update of a single column.  According to the document I should be able to define a multiple-event trigger using Cache SQL/DDL.

Here is a link to the current CREATE TRIGGER documentation.  Within the description section is the following paragraph:

A single-event trigger is triggered by a specified INSERT, DELETE, or UPDATE operation. A multiple-event trigger is defined to execute when any one of the specified events occurs on the specified table.

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Article Vitaliy Serdtsev · Jul 7, 2017 19m read

Quotes (1NF/2NF/3NF)ru:

Every row-and-column intersection contains exactly one value from the applicable domain (and nothing else). The same value can be atomic or non-atomic depending on the purpose of this value. For example, “4286” can be
  • atomic, if its denotes “a credit card’s PIN code” (if it’s broken down or reshuffled, it is of no use any longer)
  • non-atomic, if it’s just a “sequence of numbers” (the value still makes sense if broken down into several parts or reshuffled)

This article explores the standard methods of increasing the performance of SQL queries involving the following types of fields: string, date, simple list (in the $LB format), "list of <...>" and "array of <...>".

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Question Chris Sprague · Jul 4, 2017

Hello,

I'm currently exploring alternatives to CSP/services and ODBC/Sql Maps for access to Caché. I'm not seeing a library which would interest me, so am considering creating one myself.

Does 'CacheConnection' in C# use RPC of some sort, or a defined protocol to communicate with Caché, or does it do so over telnet with scripted commands? I would assume the former. If so, is this a publicly documented protocol that can be implemented by library developers?

Any guidance in this area would be appreciated.

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Question wx fg · Jul 5, 2017

hi

    I restored one database on Server B with EXTSELCT^DBREST command from   backup file (this backup file is taken from Server A).  

When I execute select some rows from one table,  it return error like this, 

the same select sql can return correct data  in server A

But when I select other rows from same table on Server B, it return correct data.

Why? maybe the backup file corrupted?

Thanks

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Question CM Wang · Jul 5, 2017

"SELECT  %SYSTEM.SQL_TableExists('table name') "could work as expected under SQL shell,

but for   "CALL %SYSTEM.SQL_TableExists('table name')" does not work (not any error reported, it just show nothing).

Is there any reason why CALL could not be applied to a stored procedure?

Thanks.

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Question Svetlana Ilina · Nov 28, 2016

Hello. I am a student from Syktyvakar Forest Institute(Russia). 

I need to make Research : "Databases for working with spatial data
Consider MySQL, PostgreSQL and 1 to choose from". I want to explore Cache with subject library of spatial data.

Help.

Does Someone from the developers write the libraries of spatial data?

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Article Maks Atygaev · Dec 11, 2016 4m read

Caché offers a number of methods for going through a collection and doing something with its elements. The easiest method uses a while-loop and lets you fulfill the task in an imperative manner. The developer needs to take care of the iterator, jumping to the next element and checking if the loop is within the collection.


 But is it really what a developer should be concerned with?

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Question Marek Bernád · Jul 3, 2017

Good day, I have this issue. I have global like: ^myglobal(varX) = $LB(var1,var2). I need to delete all globals that have variable var1 in that list same without a need to iterate through all globals and checking their value.

Exact example:

- in database exist following:

^myglobal("Marek") = $LB("code2",1400)
^myglobal("Ondrej") = $LB("code1",12)
^myglobal("Nikita") = $LB("code2",32)
^myglobal("Evgeny") = $LB("code1",76)
^myglobal("Maks") = $LB("code2",99)
^myglobal("Eduard") = $LB("code1",14)
Now! How to delete all globals that have in list in the first place value "code2" please?

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Question Marek Bernád · Jul 3, 2017

Good day, I would like to find out the size of Caché ObjectScript variable in order to guarantee that my program will not leak, equally in terminal and Caché globals.  For example how huge number I can store in that variable ? And what happen in Caché when variable will leak ? How is this behavior treated? (how much memory is reserved for common variable?)

Thanks  in advance for your answers.

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Question Alexander Koblov · Feb 5, 2016

Hi.

It is easy to receive JSON representation or dynamic Array from %ListOfDataTypes:

set l=##class(%ListOfDataTypes).%New()
do l.Insert("a")
do l.Insert("b")
do l.Insert("c")

set arrStr=l.$toJSON()
zwrite arrStr
set arr=l.$compose([])
zwrite arr

How to make backward conversion? How to receive %ListOfDataTypes from dynamic Array an JSON string?

I've tried

SAMPLES>set list = ##class(%ListOfDataTypes).$fromJSON("[""a"",""b"",""c""]")

%FromObject+21^%Library.RegisteredObject.1 *%Exception.General Compose Compose %FromObject Unable to map from %Library.Array instance to %Library.
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Question PILAR GUERRERO · Jun 29, 2017

Hello...

I need to convert a array  (JSON) in a List Of String. I think, there is some method that does it directly.

Something like that:

SAMPLES>set list = ##class(%ListOfDataTypes).$fromJSON("[""a"",""b"",""c""]")

%FromObject+21^%Library.RegisteredObject.1 *%Exception.General Compose Compose %FromObject Unable to map frm %Library.Array instance to %Library.ListOfDataTypes

I have reading about this but I don't found some trick to help me.

https://community.intersystems.com/post/how-convert-json-listofdatatypes

Thanks!!

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Question Amir Samary · Jun 28, 2017

Hi everyone!

We have many severs (DEV, QA and LIVE) besides many other slave servers (about 133) that are running Caché instances. Before writing this utility myself, I would like to know if anyone has done it before. We need to change the SuperUser password and do other credential setups like this on all of these servers and we don't want to do it one by one.

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Article Jonathan Pham · Nov 1, 2016 1m read

A few customers have seen this happen, so I thought it would be worth mentioning here on the Developer Community.  This could affect  users running versions between 2014.1.3 and latest who install or upgrade Wireshark.  There is a bug in the Visual C++ 2013 redistributable shipped with the current Wireshark 2.2.1. 

This is from Microsoft’s bug report  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138367 :

“When you install an updated redistributable package, binaries for non-target architectures are removed.

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Question Mike Kadow · Jun 12, 2017

I would like to start a discussion regarding Caché Objects and Caché SQL.

It is my understanding that the creators of Caché Objects see Caché SQL as the reporting arm of Objects and as such SQL is essential to Caché Objects.

I once met a Caché Objects programmer who was writing code to $Order through the Globals because that person thought that Caché SQL was too slow and inefficient. I attempted to convince the person otherwise.

So, what say you? Is SQL essential to Caché Objects?

Or

Is Caché SQL a nice to have but we can do without? Is it too slow? Is it too inefficient?

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Article Vitaliy Serdtsev · Jun 22, 2017 4m read

This is a translation of the following article. Thanks [@Evgeny Shvarov] for the help in translation.

This post is also available on Habrahabrru.

The post was inspired by this Habrahabr article: Interval-associative arrayru→en.

Since the original implementation relies on Python slices, the Caché public may find the following article useful: Everything you wanted to know about slicesru→en.

Note: Please note that the exact functional equivalent of Python slices has never been implemented in Caché, since this functionality has never been required.
And, of course, some theory: Interval treeru→en.

All right, let’s cut to the chase and take a look at some examples.

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