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There are three things most important to any SQL performance conversation:  Indices, TuneTable, and Show Plan.  The attached PDFs includes historical presentations on these topics that cover the basics of these 3 things in one place.  Our documentation provides more detail on these and other SQL Performance topics in the links below.  The eLearning options reinforces several of these topics.  In addition, there are several Developer Community articles which touch on SQL performance, and those relevant links are also listed.

There is a fair amount of repetition in the information listed below.  The most important aspects of SQL performance to consider are:

  1. The types of indices available
  2. Using one index type over another
  3. The information TuneTable gathers for a table and what it means to the Optimizer
  4. How to read a Show Plan to better understand if a query is good or bad
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Post by Benjamin Spead 11 January 2019
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I need to write a script to answer a couple of fairly simple questions:

1) What is the current routine DB (name and location) for this namespace?

2) What is the current data DB (name and location) for this namespace?

3) Is global ^ABC mapped to a different location than the default data DB?

Can anyone point me to some system APIs that would allow me to answer these questions?

Thanks!

Ben

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Post by Benjamin Spead 14 November 2018
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1) I have an oref pointing to an object on disk

2) I save the object which causes an UPDATE / AFTER Trigger to fire, and updates a value in an embedded object property

3)  I would like to see that new embedded property value in my in-memory object (for unit testing)

Is there a way to do this via a method call?  Or do I need to close the object and re-open it to see the updated value?

Thanks!

Ben

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Post by Benjamin Spead 19 June 2018
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I have a serial object:

Class EmbedObj Extends %SerialObject

which is stored as a  property of another object

Class ContainerObj Extends %Persistent

Property InnerObj As EmbedObj;

Property Foobar As %String;

Question:

From within the context of an instance of EmbedObj, how can I navigate to the containing instance of "ContainterObj" and find that value of its Foobar property?

Harder Question:  Is there a way I can do this as part of SQLComputeCode? (my EmbedObj has a Calculated property which now needs to depend on the value of property Foobar of the containing object).

Thanks in advance for any help on how to walk this relationship via Object or SQL access.

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Post by Benjamin Spead 12 June 2018
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NOTE:  This content was originally presented at the InterSystems Global Summit in 2014, however related topics often come up on the Developer Community so I have decided to turn this into an article for easier reference and discussion.  However, much of the content was pulled directly from the presentation slides so the article format resembles that of a PPT deck more than paragraphs.

Introduction

Teams that deal with many environments (e.g. for development, testing and production) multiplied by many systems (e.g. billing app, hr app, support app) can face a number of changes

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Post by Benjamin Spead 25 April 2018
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I've been writing ObjectScript for a long time and was a little surprised by this behavior so I'd like to understand what is going on.

I was doing a peer review on some source which had roughly the equivalent of the following line:

Set myRecord = ##class(MyObj.Record).%OpenId(id)
Set emailList = previousEmails_","_myRecord.RecordGroup.EmailList

I flagged it for further testing because the code didn't check if RecordGroup was set and I knew that not all records were part of a Group so I was expecting that in cases where it wasn't set this line should throw an <INVALID OREF>

However, it turns out that I had forgotten that in the MyObj.Record class, RecordGroup is actually a one:many relationship:Â

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Post by Benjamin Spead 23 March 2018
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The Widgets Direct sample application highlights many aspects of how to use InterSystems technologies to build a modern web application.  Features include:

  • Angular Material + AngularJS + JSON + REST based interactive application with Step by Step instructions on how it was built
  • Example scripts for server-side source control configuration with Perforce
  • %UnitTest logic for automated regression testing
  • %Installer class for automated instance installation from source control 
  • Scripts for Continuous Integration (CI) with Jenkins
  • Docker Manifest for automated provisioning of an instance

We will be adding articles which discuss the above list of features to drill down in more detail on each topic (feel free to  comment if there is something you want to see done sooner rather than later)

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Post by Benjamin Spead 12 September 2017
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This 'feature' have been around for a long time, but I don't see any articles on it so I thought I would make everyone aware.

A method is provided to customize the appearance of the Cache cube icon in the system tray so different instances can be visually distinguished.  When csystray.exe, the Cache/Ensemble cube program, starts, it will look for files named "up.ico" and "down.ico" in the \bin directory below the instance installation directory.  If these .ico files are present, csystray.exe will load the icons and display them in place of the default blue and gray Cache/Ensemble cube icons.  These files should each contain a single small (16x16) icon.

In order for the change to take affect, you need to exit the cube and then start it again from the Start menu (note - obviously this only works on Windows as the Cube doesn't run on other platforms)

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Post by Benjamin Spead 6 September 2017
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I want to demonstrate using Git via Server-side Source Control hooks (to allow both Studio and Atelier to access a Shared Dev namespace), and I was planning to use the popular Caché Git hooks:

https://github.com/intersystems/cache-tort-git 

Unfortunately, when I installed and configured them I realized that they will not work in a Shared Dev configuration because those hooks rely on calling the TortoiseGit Windows executable, which means that your IDE and your Caché instance must both be running on the same machine (this doesn't make sense for Shared Dev configurations).

Can anyone point me to examples of Git hooks for Studio which do not rely on calling a UI executable, but rather rely on the CLI for Git so they can run on a different machine than the IDE?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can offer.

Ben

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Post by Benjamin Spead 29 August 2017
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