Last week at the InterSystems Global Summit, we announced our new Foreign Tables capability, which was introduced as an experimental feature with the 2023.1 release earlier this year. We're now inviting you to join the Early Access Program for Foreign Tables and kick the tires on this new capability, so you can let us know whether it suits your needs and what capabilities we should prioritize next.

So what are Foreign Tables, really?

InterSystems FAQ rubric

Since SELECT ... FOR UPDATE is implemented in many RDBMS as a method of explicit row lock acquisition, I think there are many cases where this function is used.

This syntax is not an error for InterSystems products, but it does not acquire row locks as expected.

This article will show you how to achieve equivalent functionality.

DECLARE CURSOR C1 IS
SELECT Name FROM Person WHERE Name LIKE 'A%' FOR UPDATE
OPEN C1
LOOP FETCH C1 INTO name　
.

Ran into an issue with our upgrade from HealthShare Health Connect 2018.1.3 to IRIS HealthShare Health Connect 2022.1, that I thought I would reach out about, I already have a ticket open with WRC and started a chat on Discord. We have a couple of MS SQL tables that I have setup as Linked Tables within Cache to query NPI, Patient Account Information, Visit information, etc.

How to read the HL7 V2.5 messages irrespective of message type to Iris database ?

Source system sends HL7 messages of multiple message types to Intersystems through TCP and these messages are to be inserted/read into iris SQL database.

Hello,

Do you know if there is any way to disable the automatic tuning IRIS is doing every time a class is altered? It just takes too long in our case and is holding the system, so I'd like to tune the tables when I decide it (again).

I've seen in the documentation that for 2023 version there is an option present in the backend. But not for 2022, so I assume a flag is needed somewhere.

Many thanks!

In this tutorial, I’d like to talk about Class Queries. To be more precise, about the Queries based on user-written code:

A lot of people disregard this type of query just because they aren’t very comfortable with writing lots of ObjectScript code for the methods or they don’t see how they can use it in their relational apps. But to be honest, for me – it’s one of the coolest inventions for the relational model in IRIS! It lets you expose whatever information you want (not limited to tables of your database) as a relational resultset for a client.

Hi,
just want to know if indexes in IRIS / SQL are autobuilding.

I define an index in a table and then i costantly do a lot of insert/delete in that table. Will i face index problem? Do i need to rebuild it often?

Thanks

Let me introduce my new project, which is irissqlcli, REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop)  for InterSystems IRIS SQL 

• Syntax Highlighting
• Suggestions (tables, functions)
• 20+ output formats
• stdin support
• Output to files 

Install it with pip

pip install irissqlcli

Or run with docker

docker run -it caretdev/irissqlcli irissqlcli iris://_SYSTEM:SYS@host.docker.internal:1972/USER

Connect to IRIS

$ irissqlcli iris://_SYSTEM@localhost:1972/USER -W
Password for _SYSTEM:
Server:  InterSystems IRIS Version 2022.3.0.606 xDBC Protocol Version 65
Version: 0.1.0
[SQL]_SYSTEM@localhost:USER> select $ZVERSION
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Expression_1                                                                                            |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| IRIS for UNIX (Ubuntu Server LTS for ARM64 Containers) 2022.3 (Build 606U) Mon Jan 30 2023 09:05:12 EST |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set
Time: 0.063s
[SQL]_SYSTEM@localhost:USER> help
+----------+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Command  | Shortcut          | Description                                                |
+----------+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| .exit    | \q                | Exit.                                                      |
| .mode    | \T                | Change the table format used to output results.            |
| .once    | \o [-o] filename  | Append next result to an output file (overwrite using -o). |
| .schemas | \ds               | List schemas.                                              |
| .tables  | \dt [schema]      | List tables.                                               |
| \e       | \e                | Edit command with editor (uses $EDITOR).                   |
| help     | \?                | Show this help.                                            |
| nopager  | \n                | Disable pager, print to stdout.                            |
| notee    | notee             | Stop writing results to an output file.                    |
| pager    | \P [command]      | Set PAGER. Print the query results via PAGER.              |
| prompt   | \R                | Change prompt format.                                      |
| quit     | \q                | Quit.                                                      |
| tee      | tee [-o] filename | Append all results to an output file (overwrite using -o). |
+----------+-------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
Time: 0.012s
[SQL]_SYSTEM@localhost:USER>

In this article, we will establish an encrypted JDBC connection between Tableau Desktop and InterSystems IRIS database using a JDBC driver. While documentation on configuring TLS with Java clients covers all possible topics on establishing an encrypted JDBC connection, configuring it with Tableau might be a little bit tricky, so I decided to write it down.

Securing SuperServer

Before we start with client connections, you need to configure SuperServer, which by default runs on port 1972 and is responsible for xDBC traffic to accept encrypted connections.

Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and data visualization platform. Superset can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources.

And now it is possible to use with InterSystems IRIS as well.

An online demo is available and it uses IRIS Cloud SQL as a data source.

Hi Developers!

There is a recent update came for developer community images of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS For Health.

This release comes with Environment variables support.

Currently 3 variables are supported:

• IRIS_USERNAME=user to create
• IRIS_PASSWORD=with password
• IRIS_NAMESPACE=create namespace if doesn't exist

Here is what you can do - see below.

Start iris with your username and password created:

docker run --rm --name iris-sql -d -p 9091:1972 -p 9092:52773  -e IRIS_PASSWORD=demo -e IRIS_USERNAME=demo intersystemsdc/iris-community

 i use %SQLGatewayConnection to insert data to mysql from xml，when if the value`s ascii of any field in the sql equal to 57659 ，

ClassMethod Execute(sql, conn, Output msg) As %Status
{
    s $zt="Err"
    s msg=""
    k hstmt
    set sc=conn.AllocateStatement(.hstmt)
    set sc=conn.PrepareW(hstmt,sql) 
    
  if $$$ISERR(sc) quit sc
  //Execute statement
  set sc=conn.Execute(hstmt)
  if $$$ISERR(sc) 
  {
      k err
   Set xsc=conn.GetErrorList(hstmt,.err)
      set sc=conn.DropStatement(hstmt)
   ;Zwrite err
   Quit err
  }
    set sc=conn.

Hi Developers!

Here is the score of technical bonuses for participants' applications in the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2023!

We have a rule to disable a user account if they have not logged in for a certain number of days. IRIS Audit database logs many events such as login failures for example. It can be configured to log successful logins as well. We have IRIS clusters with many IRIS instances. I like to run queries against audit data from ALL IRIS instances and identify user accounts which have not logged into ANY IRIS instance.

Hi Community!

Please welcome a new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube Channel:

Getting Sharded with InterSystems IRIS

Hi Community,

Watch this video to see how to connect to InterSystems Cloud Services from your Java application using the InterSystems JDBC driver:

⏯ Connecting to InterSystems Cloud Services with Java

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 2023 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IntegratedML usage
• Online Demo
• Article on Developer Community
• The second article on Developer Community
• Video on YouTube
• First Time Contribution
• Community Idea Implementation
• IRIS Cloud SQL Survey

See the details below.

Within IRIS I defined a task to export audit data every day.

I provide some sample files in my GitHub repo.

I wrote ObjectScript code to import all files into otw.audit.consolidator class.

I want to use Python SQLAlchemy, pandas and sqlalchemy-iris (created by Dmitry Maslenikov) to copy consolidated audit data from my consolidator class in my IRIS container to my InterSystems Cloud SQL deployment.

I updated my Dockerfile to pip3 install sqlalchemy-iris and pandas (dataframes).

docker-compose build –no-cache in my personal AWS took 700 seconds.

Hi Community,
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-mlm-explainer

This web application connects to InterSystems Cloud SQL to create, train, validate, and predict ML models, make Predictions and display a dashboard of all the trained models with an explanation of the workings of a fitted machine learning model. The dashboard provides interactive plots on model performance, feature importances, feature contributions to individual predictions, partial dependence plots, SHAP (interaction) values, visualization of individual decision trees, etc.

I have Audit consolidator deployed in AWS where I scheduled Audit Export task to run daily.

Xml files are stored in mgr directory because the task runs in %SYS namespace.

/usr/irissys/mgr

-rwxrw-r--. 1 irisowner irisowner 249080 Apr  9 21:48 8eedba82d0ee_2023-04-09_auditexport.xml*

-rwxrw-r--. 1 irisowner irisowner  19487 Apr 10 00:02 8eedba82d0ee_2023-04-10_auditexport.xml*

-rwxrw-r--. 1 irisowner irisowner  23554 Apr 11 00:02 8eedba82d0ee_2023-04-11_auditexport.xml*

-rwxrw-r--. 1 irisowner irisowner  27624 Apr 12 00:02 8eedba82d0ee_2023-04-12_auditexport.xml*

-rwxrw-r--.

Data Initialization

1. Create a table with sql statements

create table IF NOT EXISTS MLTEST_MSG.HeightWeightPredictMSG (Id int primary key identity(101,2),number varchar(50), Height float, Weight  float);

create table IF NOT EXISTS MLTEST_MSG.HeightWeightMSG (Id int primary key identity(101,2),number varchar(50), Height float, Weight  float);

create table IF NOT EXISTS MLTEST_MSG.FamilyMSG(id int primary key identity(101,2),Csex int, Family float,Father float,Mother float, num int,Height float);

create table IF NOT EXISTS MLTEST_MSG.

Hey Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating AI/ML solutions that use Cloud SQL to work with data: 

🏆 InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 🏆

Duration: April 3 - April 23, 2023

Prize pool: $13,500

The SQL editor in the contest environment promises these features
InterSystems SQL Reference.  

But this is the reality:

I see no chance to have a different user.
Or did I miss something?
Or is this just fiction from ChatGPT ?

Hi all,

I'm trying to use LOAD DATA to insert 11k (11,377) rows of data. LOAD BULK DATA is not available for the version of IRIS I am using.

After calling LOAD DATA it says only 5,500 rows has been inserted. The LOAD DATA docs says any error rows are skipped and a count of skipped rows can be found in %SQL_Diag.Result however there are no results here. There are no errors in the xDBC error log either.

Why have over half the rows been skipped?

In the vast and varied SQL database market, InterSystems IRIS stands out as a platform that goes way beyond just SQL, offering a seamless multimodel experience and supporting a rich set of development paradigms. Especially the advanced Object-Relational engine has helped organizations use the best-fit development approach for each facet of their data-intensive workloads, for example ingesting data through Objects and simultaneously querying it through SQL. Persistent Classes correspond to SQL tables, their properties to table columns and business logic is easily accessed using User-Defined Functions or Stored Procedures. In this article, we'll zoom in on a little bit of the magic just below the surface, and discuss how it may affect your development and deployment practices. This is an area of the product where we have plans to evolve and improve, so please don't hesitate to share your views and experiences using the comments section below.

Assuming I have an SQL table with data, is it possible to get DML export (INSERT statements for this data)?

InterSystems FAQ rubric

The ID of the last updated record can be obtained using the SQL function LAST_IDENTITY().
* This function can be used with embedded SQL or ODBC but not with Dynamic SQL, SQL Shell, or the Management Portal's SQL interface.

Here's an example of usage with simple Embedded SQL:

looking into tenants  I see this:

But on the main page, I have 2 deployments that I can work with  !! 

What is going on ??

I have  an accepted tenant and want to share my deployment.

how is this possible?