Database Comparer VCL - DB Extractor Description

	DB Extractor Description

Features | Detailed Description

To extract database structure definitions (metadata) Database Comparer VCL uses set of classes called metadata extractors. There are two different metadata extractors, one to extract metadata from SQL scripts (TxxxScriptExtract classes) and another to extract metadata using live database connection (TxxxDBExtract classes). Each database has own TxxxScriptExtract and TxxxDBExtract classes which knows how to work with this specific database. For example for MS SQL there is a TMSSQLScriptExtract and TMSSQLDBExtract clasess, TIBSctiptExtract and TIBDBExtract for Interbase and so on. See Script Extractor

Metadata extractor saves all information about underlying database structure in to a special storage class DB Structure. This class is unified for all types of databases. Such approach makes possible to compare and synchronize databases structure of different types of databases. For example you can compare and synchronize Oracle and MS SQL databases, MS SQL and dBases databases and so on.

Please see the Demos code (DBComparerDemoFib, DBComparerDemoIbo, DBComparerDemoIbx, DBComparerDemoMSSQL, ScriptComparer) and also the indexed Help documentation provided with the Database Comparer VCL installation for more details about using this component.

Property List

Name	Description
ExtractObjects	Specifies database objects to be extracted from the database.
DBCConnection	Represents database connection.
DBStructure	Provides Database Structure to store extracted database objects.
ShowFullLog	Generate detailed log when extracting metadata.

Method List

Name	Description
ExtractDatabase	Extracts the database structure.

Event List

Name	Description
OnErrorMessage	Occurs when an error is generated during extracting, comparing, or updating the database.
OnLogNextLine	Occurs when a new line has been generated and needs to be saved to log.
OnProgressUpdate	Occurs when the progress has changed.