go to post Benjamin De Boe · May 4, 2018 I'm afraid we don't support the SQL PIVOT command, so unless you can enumerate the response codes as columns explicitly, you can only organise them as rows. If you control the application code, you could of course first have a query selecting all response codes and then generating the lengthy SQL call that includes separate columns for each response code. Something like SUM(CASE bRecord.ResponseCode WHEN 'response code 1' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS ResponseCode1Count should work fairly well.
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Mar 27, 2018 Horita-san,The SetParameter() method requires your domain has an ID assigned, which it gets automatically as soon as you call %Save() a first time. Note that it should be returning an error in the sequence of commands you pasted, but it went unnoticed because of the do syntax.In general, it should be more convenient to work with Domain Definitions rather than the %iKnow.Domain API directly.Thanks,benjamin
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Feb 1, 2018 Hi Dmitry,Zen is indeed no longer a central piece of our application development strategy. We'll support it for some time to come (your Zen app still works on IRIS), but our focus is on providing a fast and scalable data management platform rather than GUI libraries. In that sense, you may already have noticed that recent courses we published on the topic of application development focus on leveraging the right technologies to connect to the backend (i.e. REST) and suggest using best-of-breed third-party technologies (i.e. Angular) for web development.InterSystems IRIS is a new product where we're taking advantage of our Caché & Ensemble heritage. It's meant to address today's challenges when building critical applications and we've indeed leveraged a number of capabilities from those products, but also added a few significant new ones like containers, cloud & horizontal scalability. We'll be providing an overview of elements to check for Caché & Ensemble customers that would like to migrate to InterSystems IRIS shortly (i.e. difference in supported platforms), but please don't consider this as merely an upgrade. You may already have noticed the installer doesn't support upgrading anyhow.Thanks,benjamin
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Feb 1, 2018 Hi Robert,DocBook has now moved fully online, which is what the mgmt portal will link to: http://docs.intersystems.com/irisSAMPLES included quite a few outdated examples and was also not appropriate for many non-dev deployments, so we've also moved to a different model there, posting the most relevant ones on GitHub, giving us more flexibility to provide updates and new ones: https://github.com/intersystems?q=samplesJDBC driver: to what extent is this different from the past? It's always just been available as a jarfile, as is customary for JDBC drivers. We do hope to be able to post it through Maven repositories in the near future though.Small icons: yeah, to make our installer and (more importantly) the container images more lightweight, we had to economize on space. Next to the removal of DocBook and Samples, using smaller icons also reduces the size in bytes ;) ;)InterSystems IRIS is giving us the opportunity to adopt a contemporary deployment model, where we were somewhat restricted by long-term backwards compatibility commitments with Caché & Ensemble. Some of these will indeed catch your eye and might even feel a little strange at first, but we really believe the new model makes developing and deploying applications easier and faster. Of course, we're open to feedback on all of these evolution and this is a good channel to hear from you.Thanks!benjamin
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Jan 31, 2018 With the release of InterSystems IRIS, we're also publishing a few new great online courses on the technologies that come with it. That includes two on sharding, so don't hesitate to check them out!
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Jan 12, 2018 If you have a global structure that you mapped a class to afterwards, that data is already in one physical database and therefore not sharded or shardable. Sharding really is a layer in between your SQL accesses and the physical storage and it expects you not to touch that physical storage directly. So yes you can still picture how that global structure looks like and under certain circumstances (and when we're not looking ;-) ) read from those globals, but new records have to go through INSERT statements (or %New in a future version), but can never go against the global directly.We currently only support sharding for %CacheStorage. There's been so many improvements in that model over the past 5-10 years that there aren't many reasons left to choose %CacheSQLStorage for new SQL/Object development. The only likely reason would be that you still have legacy global structures to start from, but as explained above, that's not a scenario we can support with sharding. Maybe a nice reference in this context is that of one of our early adopters who was able to migrate their existing SQL-based application to InterSystems IRIS in less than a day without any code changes, so they could use the rest of the day to start sharding a few of their tables and were ready to scale before dinner, so to speak.
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Jan 12, 2018 Hi Warlin,I'm not sure whether you have something specific in mind, but it sort of works the other way around. You shard a table and, under the hood, invisible to application code, the table's data gets distributed to globals in the data shards. You cannot shard globals.thanks,benjamin
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Jan 11, 2018 Hi Herman,We're supporting SQL only in this first release, but are working hard to add Object and other data models in the future. Sharding any globals is unfortunately not possible as we need some level of abstraction (such as SQL tables or Objects) to hook into in order to automate the distribution of data and work to shards. This said, if your SQL (or soon Object) based application has the odd direct global reference to a "custom" global (not related to a sharded table), we'll still support that by just mapping those to the shard master database.Thanks,benjamin
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Sep 29, 2017 iKnow was written to analyze English rather than ObjectScript, so you may see a few odd results coming out of code blocks. I believe you can add a where clause excluding those records from the block table to avoid them.
go to post Benjamin De Boe · Sep 21, 2017 I've had something simple running on my laptop already a long time ago, but the internal discussion on how to package it proved a little more complicated. Among other things, an iFind index requires an iKnow-enabled license (and more space!), which meant you couldn't simply include it in every kit.Also, for the ranking of docbook results, applying proper weights based on the type of content (title / paragraph / sample / ...) was at least as important as the text search capabilities themselves. That latter piece has been well-addressed in 2017.1, so docbook search is in pretty good shape now. Blending in an easily-deployable iFind option as Konstantin published can only add to this!Thanks,benjamin
