Partial Clone == Dump of Tree of related records

[John Sims]

On 1/26/11 4:14 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> On 1/25/11 4:36 AM, "John Sims"<john at conceptualight.com>  wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>> Just thinking out loud, I don't suppose there is a way to enable
>> Valentina to create "Partial" clones:
>>
>> I'd like to choose a specific record from a certain table then have that
>> record and any records of any tables down the relationship tree cloned.
>> If there are any tables that are not in the relationship tree, all
>> records for those tables would be cloned.
>
>> That, and Triggers on Binary Links, would take me a long way towards
>> being able to build my replication engine.
>>
>> Thanks for listening.  Please let me know if you have any other questions.
> Yes, we have also think about this possibility few year ago yet,
> When did XML dumps ...
>
> XML format is the most confortable for this task I think.
>
> Although it is possible produce and text file with SQL commands which do the
> same
>
> Yes interesting task ... And have many sense.
>
>
> Question yet invent nice SYNTAX for it:
>      API?    SQL?     GUI also?
>
>
Hi Ruslan,

Sorry it took me so long to respond.  I'm going in about 10 different 
directions right now.

Let me take a few weeks to do some proof of concept work and then I'll 
have a better feel for what would be, in my opinion, good additions to 
Valentina.

Thanks for listening!

-John