Export a Database Definition (dbdefExport)

The dbdefExport command exports an existing database definition object from the model, typically to a specified file.

ttGridAdmin dbdefExport name 
                        [filepath]

Options

The dbdefExport command has the options:

Option Description

Option	Description
`name`	Name of the database definition to export.
`filepath`	Path and name of the database definition file to create, typically a `.dbdef` file for use with `dbdefCreate` or `dbdefModify`. If no file is specified, the export goes to `stdout`. Important: If you specify an existing file, it will be overwritten.

name

Name of the database definition to export.

filepath

Path and name of the database definition file to create, typically a .dbdef file for use with dbdefCreate or dbdefModify. If no file is specified, the export goes to stdout.

Important: If you specify an existing file, it will be overwritten.

Examples

This example exports the database definition created in the dbdefCreate example above to the file database1.dbdef.

% ttGridAdmin dbdefExport database1 /sw/tten/grid/dbdefs/database1.dbdef

Resulting contents of database1.dbdef:

# DbDef GUID BCC6AB97-FDC2-4453-AEBC-5BFCAA57EA52 Exported 2017-12-06 19:05:03
[database1]
DataStore=/disk/databases/database1
DatabaseCharacterSet=AL32UTF8
LogDir=/disk2/logs
PermSize=256
TempSize=128
connections=100
durability=0

Notes

The database definition is exported in odbc.ini format, as shown in the example, with attribute=value on each line.
A typical use case is if you want to modify a database definition, but the original database definition file is no longer available.