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Dirkster99 / NextLevel

NextLevel is a relational database tool for those who work with SQL on destributed RDBMS
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Still alive? mingw32-make? #1

Open jjerome00 opened 8 years ago

jjerome00 commented 8 years ago

I was really interested in your project. I'm trying to generate some docs for my database, and I wanted to play around with your project more. However, I cannot figure out mingw. I downloaded the library, but I cannot use the bat file you provide to call "mingw32-make". I know enough c++ to be dangerous, but I'm clueless as far as using this tool. Are there any docs that can hold my hand as far as building this project?

Dirkster99 commented 8 years ago

You can also build this with Visual Studio, have a look here: https://github.com/Dirkster99/NextLevel/blob/master/DevProj/MSDev/MSDev.sln

You could also try defining a new makefile or Visual Studio solution - it should not be too difficult. I only started out with mingw because Visual Studio was not available back then. Let me know how you go I would also be interested in developing this further - in the parser section in particular since Microsoft has opened up some DACPac API*s around SQLServer ...

jjerome00 commented 8 years ago

That did the trick - thanks! I'm leaning towards rolling a solution using MS's system views, which seem to be able to do everything these days, including dependencies.

Dirkster99 commented 8 years ago

yes same here, I am also leaning towards the same end. Which is why the source code is available for inspiration and those who need a solution now. But its not really developed anymore. I would implement it these days in Java or .Net and make use of an API like the DacPac API from Microsoft.

My problem is just that I have not found a working solution, yet. This is still under heavy development as we speak, right? Please let me know if you have interesting pointers on this subject. Thanks

jjerome00 commented 8 years ago

I've never heard of DacPac before, I had to look it up. I used SMO to build a little database object scripter app (c#) for use at a client - mostly to standardize our scripts for use with subversion.

What I'm doing now is trying to satisfy an itch for creating database documentation - preferably in a wiki format. I've seen some tools that come close, but they all seem to fall short in one way or another.