Change Log

Synergy Development Environment

Change Log

 

Bulk Load via HTTP (2/15/2018)

We have removed the previous bulk load mechanism that used xfServer to upload data to the database server for subsequent BULK INSERT and have replaced it with a better and more flexible solution. The environment now includes a Synergy .NET project named FileService which is the code for a Windows Service that can be installed on the Windows database server host. The Windows service in turn hosts a Web API 2 RESTful web service that allows the delimited data files that are used during bulk load operations to be uploaded to the server via an HTTP post. This capability can be supported from any Synergy environment, including OpenVMS systems. The bilk load code that replicator uses has been updated to use this new HTTP mechanism instead of using xfServer on the database server system. If you wish to use this new bulk load mechanism then you must have a Synergy runtime (RUN10) license available on the database server system, in addition to the SQL Connection API (SCSQ10) license that is also required.

 

Replication of Relative Files (1/19/2018)

We introduced a mechanism for relative files to be replicated in addition to ISAM files. The code generated for relative files will include a "RowNumber" column that is populated with the associated record number from the underlying relative file. This row number is then used to synchronize the data in the file and table.

 

Initial Bulk Load Support (1/19/2018)

We introduced a new "bulk load" mechanism which in some circumstances can substantially reduce the time taken to load initial data into a table. The mechanism exports the data to a delimited file in the Synergy environment, then uses xfServer to copy the file to the database server where it is subsequently processed with a BULK INSERT statement. The sample EMPLOYEE file (which has 25,000 records) loads 20x faster using the new mechanism in my test environment (2 seconds vs 20 seconds). This mechanism requires an instance of xfServer to be running on the SQL Server system, and so can't be used when replicator is running on OpenVMS. This capability is intended to be a temporary solution for use on Windows and UNIX / Linux until a better and more generic solution can be developed.