Hello all,

Anyone know the status of edbcmd.exe? I'm looking for a way to run sql scripts on elevatedb databases without having to go through the DBManager GUI. Some old posts on this forum suggest edbcmd.exe would work, but it does not appear to be part of the download.

Thanks!

--Bryan

This was actually a command-line server and it looks like it has been
dropped from VCL version of EDB (i can't find it anymore in my EDB
install) - i'm guessing ti still might be in Lazarus version as its only
real use would be on Linux.

Either way it was/is just a regular EDB server and not a command line
utility for queries/etc. There is nothing like that available from
Elevate Software AFAIK.

It would be fairly straight-forward to write a command line app to run
SQL commands though.

Raul


On 7/11/2012 9:01 PM, logicalcat wrote:
> Anyone know the status of edbcmd.exe? I'm looking for a way to run sql scripts on elevatedb databases without having to go through the DBManager GUI. Some old posts on this forum suggest edbcmd.exe would work, but it does not appear to be part of the download.

Hmm. If I happen not to be a delphi developer, what might such a command line client look like? I envision something that I could feed a connection string to whatever server/port/database I want and get a reply (like Oracle sqlplus). Are you suggesting there's a way to use an existing EDB installation and just write a console-based wrapper?


Raul wrote:


This was actually a command-line server and it looks like it has been
dropped from VCL version of EDB (i can't find it anymore in my EDB
install) - i'm guessing ti still might be in Lazarus version as its only
real use would be on Linux.

Either way it was/is just a regular EDB server and not a command line
utility for queries/etc. There is nothing like that available from
Elevate Software AFAIK.

It would be fairly straight-forward to write a command line app to run
SQL commands though.

Raul


On 7/11/2012 9:01 PM, logicalcat wrote:
> Anyone know the status of edbcmd.exe? I'm looking for a way to run sql scripts on elevatedb databases without having to go through the DBManager GUI. Some old posts on this forum suggest edbcmd.exe would work, but it does not appear to be part of the download.

Yes something like that.

I meant writing a Delphi console application (command line app without
any windows GUI). Programming would still be needed though to create
such an application - AFAIK nothing like this exists.

Raul

On 7/12/2012 12:37 AM, logicalcat wrote:
> Hmm. If I happen not to be a delphi developer, what might such a command line client look like? I envision something that I could feed a connection string to whatever server/port/database I want and get a reply (like Oracle sqlplus). Are you suggesting there's a way to use an existing EDB installation and just write a console-based wrapper?

Bryan,

<< Anyone know the status of edbcmd.exe? I'm looking for a way to run sql
scripts on elevatedb databases without having to go through the DBManager
GUI. Some old posts on this forum suggest edbcmd.exe would work, but it does
not appear to be part of the download. >>

Are you a developer, or an end-user ?  If you have the VCL components, it is
trivial to create a console application that will execute scripts based upon
a file name passed on the command-line.

Thanks,

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com