Moving database from live to test

Option: Database creation

I can there is no database allready please perform the following steps (assuming new db is named "sandbox")

 mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD

 CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS sandboxbase; 
 CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS sandboxtest;
 CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS sandboxlive;
 CREATE USER 'sandboxroot'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'TempusServaFTW!';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON sandboxlive.* TO 'sandboxroot'@'localhost';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON sandboxtest.* TO 'sandboxroot'@'localhost';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON sandboxbase.* TO 'sandboxroot'@'localhost';

Database transfer

Choose ONE of the options below that best suits your requirements.

Database transfer: Different MySQL server / Same schema name

Export data from LIVE server

 mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD --databases tsbase tslive tstest > dump.sql

Import data to TEST server

 mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD --force < dump.sql

If port 3306 is open you might consider network streaming and using pipes. Note that a remote user is needed on the other server.

 mysqldump ... | mysql ... -h SERVERNAME

 mysqldump -uLOCAL_USR -pLOCAL_PWD --databases tsbase tslive tstest | mysql -u REMOTE_USR -pREMOTE_PWD -h SERVERNAME --force

Database transfer: Same MySQL server / Different schema name

Dumping data

Export data from LIVE server

 mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tsbase > dumpBase.sql
 mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tslive > dumpLive.sql
 mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tstest > dumpTest.sql

For production servers you can avoid table locking using if consistency is not a huge issue (data can be changed and loose internal integrity)

 mysqldump --skip-lock-tables ...

Importing data

Import data to TEST server (assuming name is 'sandbox')

 mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxbase < dumpBase.sql
 mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxlive < dumpLive.sql
 mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxtest < dumpTest.sql

Errors during import

Using MySQL 5.6 or higher you might get an error like this

 Error code: 1118 Row size too large (> 8126).

Resolve by setting this configuration in the MySQL configuration file

 innodb_strict_mode = 0

Conf file may vary but is often found at

 sudo nano /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

Export and importing in one go

It is possible to pipe the output from dump directly to the mysql import

 mysqldump ... | mysql ...

For test and live on same machine the full live to test overwrite is

 mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tsbase | mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxbase
 mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tslive | mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxlive
 mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD tstest | mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD sandboxtest

Partial transfers without files

In some situations we want to move data around without attatched files. Example usage: Frequent overwrite of test environment with data from live.

Windows partial transfer

Assuming that pasword for the root account is 'TempusServa' and the scheme is tsXXXX the dump commands are.

 mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -q -Q -u root -pTempusServa tsbase > c:\temp\tsbase.sql

 for /F %A in ('mysql -u root -pTempusServa tslive -Bse "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = 'tslive' AND table_name NOT LIKE '%_file'"') DO @Echo Dumping %A & CALL mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -q -Q -u root -pTempusServa tslive %A >> c:\temp\tslive.sql

 for /F %A in ('mysql -u root -pTempusServa tstest -Bse "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = 'tstest' AND table_name NOT LIKE '%_file'"') DO @Echo Dumping %A & CALL mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -q -Q -u root -pTempusServa tstest %A >> c:\temp\tstest.sql

For even faster transfers consider exlucding the accesslogs too using

 for /F %A in ('mysql -u root -pTempusServa tslive -Bse "SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = 'tslive' AND table_name NOT LIKE '%_file' AND table_name NOT LIKE '%_accesslog'"') DO @Echo Dumping %A & CALL mysqldump --skip-lock-tables -q -Q -u root -pTempusServa tslive %A >> c:\temp\tslive.sql

Configuration changes

Important information: The following script will updata the database tslive, for the sandbox copy example please USE sandboxlive;.

Run the following commands before you start the server

 mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD

 USE tslive;
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'false' WHERE PolicyName='serviceAutostart';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'true' WHERE PolicyName='smtpTestMode';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'localhost' WHERE PolicyName='smtpServer';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'localhost' WHERE PolicyName='applicationServer';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'http://localhost' WHERE PolicyName='applicationURL';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue =  WHERE PolicyName LIKE 'folder%';
 UPDATE systempolicy SET PolicyValue = 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps' WHERE PolicyName='applicationBasePath';

Note: The following changes can be replaced by setting the values in the application deployment descriptor, starting from version 2500

Rebuild views

Ensure that views exist by rebuilding them

 Designer > Modules > Admin services > RebuildViews

Troubleshooting

Server not started

• Check application server log files for information
• Tomcat
  • Check xml descriptor is found in [TOMCAT]/conf/Catalina/localhost
  • Check war file is unpacked correctly in [TOMCAT]/webapps

Cannot select fieldtype when adding or editing fields

1. Run the following SQL command

 USE tsbase;
 DROP VIEW IF EXISTS viewdatatypeselector;
 CREATE VIEW viewdatatypeselector AS
   SELECT
     systemdatatype.FeltTypeID AS `FeltTypeID`,
     concat(systemdatatypepackage.TypePrefix,': ',systemdatatype.FeltType) AS `FeltType` 
   FROM systemdatatype 
   JOIN systemdatatypepackage 
     ON systemdatatype.PackageID = systemdatatypepackage.PackageID 
   WHERE systemdatatype.IsSelectable = 1)
   ORDER BY systemdatatypepackage.SortOrder, systemdatatype.FeltType;

1. Repeat the "Rebuild views above"