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What is the easiest/best way to transfer the data source values in real-time to local SQL Server Express 2012 64bit..? Any good examples? I would like to keep only couple of days data in Switch King database and make deeper analysis with SQL Server.

Is it possible to modify DSVWriterPlugin.dll to write to SQL Server like MYSQL?

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pekkak wrote:Is it possible to modify DSVWriterPlugin.dll to write to SQL Server like MYSQL?

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It's exactly what it does.

If you use Google Trasnslate I think that you can understand the config... shouldn't be too hard.

I already downloaded the RAR included in the first message, but I didn't realize that the mysql.dll works also for MS SQL Server. Is it really so, aren't there any MySQL specific procedures? How should I modify the connection string (surely no port for instance and do I need to do this with ODBC?):

dbConnectString="Database=utv;Data Source=localhost;Port=3306;User Id=root;Password=mysql"

pekkak wrote:I already downloaded the RAR included in the first message, but I didn't realize that the mysql.dll works also for MS SQL Server. Is it really so, aren't there any MySQL specific procedures? How should I modify the connection string (surely no port for instance and do I need to do this with ODBC?):

dbConnectString="Database=utv;Data Source=localhost;Port=3306;User Id=root;Password=mysql"

It isn't written for MS SQL Server... it's for MySQL so my guess is that you can't use MS SQL.

If you know your way around (any) SQL server you should be good to go with MySQL.


... on the other hand, it would be nice with a plugin that writes to MsSQL instead (I use it a for storing my statistics). Or why not ODBC and then you should be able to use "any" database engine.

I have MySQL database, but it is in a web hotel and with Switch King I would like to use local SQL Server Express which I already have installed for other purposes (mainly for Windows performance counters). I wish I had any clue how to make these plugins but coding DLLs (with C#?) is little bit too hard core for me..

What is the information that you wanna save in the db?

Time - Device name - Device ID - Value

or is there any other information that you need to have saved in the ms sql server?

I think those are exactly what I need. I'm not sure what other useful information is available. In the MySQL integration the MySQL table has these columns:

`switchking_logid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`value` double DEFAULT NULL,
`timestamp` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`local_timestamp` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`expires` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`failure` varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL

I suppose someone uses "expires" and "failure" information. Maybe "device group" too?