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Another Look at MySQL 5.1’s SQL Diagnostic Tools
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Alzabo::MySQL(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Alzabo::MySQL(3pm) NAME
Alzabo::MySQL - Alzabo and MySQL DESCRIPTION
This documentation is about what special support Alzabo has for MySQL, as well as what is lacking. MySQL support is based on the 3.23.* release series, with some support for features that are starting to appear in the 4.0.* releases. Earlier versions of MySQL will probably work with Alzabo, though Alzabo cannot magically make these releases support new features like fulltext indexes. Indexes o Alzabo supports the ability to specify prefixes when adding an index. Prefixes are required when attempting to index any sort of text or blob column. o Alzabo supports the creation of fulltext indexes and their use in SELECT and WHERE clauses. This includes the ability to get back the score given for a match as part of a select, using the "function" or "select" methods of either table or schema objects. Reverse Engineering o When reverse engineering a schema, Alzabo knows that MySQL has "default defaults" for certain column types. For example, if a DATE column is specified as NOT NULL but is not assigned a default, MySQL gives this column a default of '0000-00-00'. Because Alzabo knows about this, it will ignore these defaults when reverse engineering an RDBMS. o Similarly, Alzabo knows that MySQL assigns default "lengths" to many column types. For example, if given INTEGER as a column type, MySQL will convert this to INTEGER(11) or INTEGER(10), depending on the version of MySQL being used. Again, Alzabo ignores these lengths when reverse engineering a schema. o All of this may lead to apparent inconsistencies when using the with the "Alzabo::Create::Schema->sync_backend" or "Alzabo::Cre- ate::Schema->sync_backend_sql" methods. If you are using this feature from the web based schema creator, you will see that even imme- diately after running the "sync_backend()" method, Alzabo may still think there are differences between the two schemas. This is not a problem, as running the SQL Alzabo generates will not actually change your database. Transactions Alzabo will try to use transactions whenever appropriate. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine whether or not a given table supports transactions so Alzabo simply calls DBI's "begin_work()" method, whether or not this will actually do anything. Constraints and Foreign Keys o Column constraints are treated as column attributes. o Foreign key constraints are not generated when generating SQL for a MySQL schema. This will probably change in the future. Table Types These can be specified as a table attribute. perl v5.8.8 2007-12-23 Alzabo::MySQL(3pm)
