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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About the SQLFire User's Guide
- Supported Configurations and System Requirements
- Getting Started with vFabric SQLFire
- Managing Your Data in vFabric SQLFire
- Designing vFabric SQLFire Databases
- Using Server Groups to Manage Data
- Partitioning Tables
- Replicating Tables
- Estimating Memory Requirements
- Using Disk Stores to Persist Data
- Exporting and Importing Data with vFabric SQLFire
- Using Table Functions to Import Data as a SQLFire Tables
- Developing Applications with SQLFire
- Starting SQLFire Servers with the FabricServer Interface
- Developing Java Clients and Peers
- Configuring SQLFire as a JDBC Datasource
- Storing and Loading JAR Files in SQLFire
- Developing ADO.NET Client Applications
- About the ADO.NET Driver
- ADO.NET Driver Classes
- Installing and Using the ADO.NET driver
- Connecting to SQLFire with the ADO.NET Driver
- Managing Connections
- Executing SQL Commands
- Working with Result Sets
- Storing a Table
- Storing Multiple Tables
- Specifying Command Parameters with SQLFParameter
- Updating Row Data
- Adding Rows to a Table
- Managing SQLFire Transactions
- Performing Batch Updates
- Generic Coding with the SQLFire ADO.NET Driver
- Using SQLFire.NET Designer
- Understanding the Data Consistency Model
- Using Distributed Transactions in Your Applications
- Using Data-Aware Stored Procedures
- Using the Procedure Provider API
- Using the Custom Result Processor API
- Programming User-Defined Types
- Using Result Sets and Cursors
- Caching Data with vFabric SQLFire
- Deploying vFabric SQLFire
- SQLFire Deployment Models
- Steps to Plan and Configure a Deployment
- Configuring Discovery Mechanisms
- Starting and Configuring SQLFire Servers
- Configuring Multi-site (WAN) Deployments
- Configuring Authentication and Authorization
- Configuring User Authentication
- User Names in Authentication and Authorization
- Configuring User Authorization
- Configuring Network Encryption and Authentication with SSL/TLS
- Managing and Monitoring vFabric SQLFire
- Configuring and Using SQLFire Log Files
- Querying SQLFire System Tables and Indexes
- Evaluating Query Execution Plans and Query Statistics
- Overriding Optimizer Choices
- Evaluating System and Application Performance
- Using Java Management Extensions (JMX)
- Best Practices for Tuning Performance
- Detecting and Handling Network Segmentation ("Split Brain")
- vFabric SQLFire Reference
- Configuration Properties
- JDBC API
- Mapping java.sql.Types to SQL Types
- java.sql.BatchUpdateException Class
- java.sql.Connection Interface
- java.sql.DatabaseMetaData Interface
- java.sql.Driver Interface
- java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection Method
- java.sql.PreparedStatement Interface
- java.sql.ResultSet Interface
- java.sql.SavePoint Class
- java.sql.SQLException Class
- java.sql.Statement Class
- javax.sql.XADataSource
- sqlf Launcher Commands
- sqlf backup
- sqlf compact-all-disk-stores
- sqlf compact-disk-store
- sqlf encrypt-password
- sqlf install-jar
- sqlf list-missing-disk-stores
- sqlf locator
- sqlf Logging Support
- sqlf merge-logs
- sqlf remove-jar
- sqlf replace-jar
- sqlf revoke-missing-disk-store
- sqlf server
- sqlf shut-down-all
- sqlf stats
- sqlf validate-disk-store
- sqlf version
- sqlf write-data-dtd-to-file
- sqlf write-data-to-db
- sqlf write-data-to-xml
- sqlf write-schema-to-db
- sqlf write-schema-to-sql
- sqlf write-schema-to-xml
- sqlf Interactive Commands
- absolute
- after last
- async
- autocommit
- before first
- close
- commit
- connect
- connect client
- connect peer
- describe
- disconnect
- driver
- elapsedtime
- execute
- exit
- first
- get scroll insensitive cursor
- GetCurrentRowNumber
- help
- last
- LocalizedDisplay
- MaximumDisplayWidth
- next
- prepare
- previous
- protocol
- relative
- remove
- rollback
- run
- set connection
- show
- wait for
- SQLFire API
- SQL Language Reference
- Keywords and Identifiers
- SQL Statements
- SQL Clauses
- SQL Expressions
- JOIN Operations
- Built-in Functions
- Standard Built-in Functions
- Aggregates (set functions)
- ABS or ABSVAL function
- ACOS function
- ASIN function
- ATAN function
- ATAN2 function
- AVG function
- BIGINT function
- CASE expressions
- CAST function
- CEIL or CEILING function
- CHAR function
- COALESCE function
- Concatenation operator
- COS function
- COSH function
- COT function
- COUNT function
- COUNT(*) function
- CURRENT DATE function
- CURRENT_DATE function
- CURRENT ISOLATION function
- CURRENT_ROLE function
- CURRENT SCHEMA function
- CURRENT TIME function
- CURRENT_TIME function
- CURRENT TIMESTAMP function
- CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function
- CURRENT_USER function
- DATE function
- DAY function
- DEGREES function
- DOUBLE function
- EXP function
- FLOOR function
- HOUR function
- INTEGER function
- LCASE or LOWER function
- LENGTH function
- LN or LOG function
- LOG10 function
- LOCATE function
- LTRIM function
- MAX function
- MIN function
- MINUTE function
- MOD function
- MONTH function
- NULLIF expressions
- PI function
- RADIANS function
- RANDOM function
- RAND function
- RTRIM function
- SECOND function
- SESSION_USER function
- SIGN function
- SIN function
- SINH function
- SMALLINT function
- SQRT function
- SUBSTR function
- SUM function
- TAN function
- TANH function
- TIME function
- TIMESTAMP function
- TRIM function
- UCASE or UPPER function
- USER function
- VARCHAR function
- XMLEXISTS operator
- XMLPARSE operator
- XMLQUERY operator
- XMLSERIALIZE operator
- YEAR function
- SQLFire Built-in Functions
- Standard Built-in Functions
- Built-in System Procedures
- Standard Built-in Procedures
- SYSCS_UTIL.EMPTY_STATEMENT_CACHE
- SYSCS_UTIL.EXPORT_QUERY
- SYSCS_UTIL.EXPORT_TABLE
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_DATA
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_DATA_EX
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_DATA_LOBS_FROM_EXTFILE system procedure
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_TABLE
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_TABLE_EX
- SYSCS_UTIL.IMPORT_TABLE_LOBS_FROM_EXTFILE
- SYSCS_UTIL.SET_EXPLAIN_CONNECTION
- SYSCS_UTIL.SET_STATISTICS_TIMING
- JAR Installation Procedures
- Callback Configuration Procedures
- Heap Eviction Configuration Procedures
- WAN Configuration Procedures
- Standard Built-in Procedures
- Data Types
- SQL Standards Conformance
- System Tables
- ASYNCEVENTLISTENERS table
- GATEWAYRECEIVERS table
- GATEWAYSENDERS table
- MEMBERS system table
- MEMORYANALYTICS system table
- STATEMENTPLANS system table
- SYSALIASES system table
- SYSCHECKS system table
- SYSCOLPERMS system table
- SYSCOLUMNS system table
- SYSCONGLOMERATES system table
- SYSCONSTRAINTS system table
- SYSDEPENDS system table
- SYSDISKSTORES system table
- SYSFILES system table
- SYSFOREIGNKEYS system table
- SYSKEYS system table
- SYSROLES system table
- SYSROUTINEPERMS system table
- SYSSCHEMAS system table
- SYSSTATEMENTS system table
- SYSSTATISTICS system table
- SYSTABLEPERMS system table
- SYSTABLES system table
- SYSTRIGGERS system table
- SYSVIEWS system table
- Exception Messages and SQL States
- ADO.NET Driver Reference
- SQLFire Data Types in ADO.NET
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.BatchUpdateException
- VMWare.Data.SQLFire.SQLFClientConnection
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFCommand
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFCommandBuilder
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFType
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFDataAdapter
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFDataReader
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFException
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFParameter
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFParameterCollection
- VMware.Data.SQLFire.SQLFTransaction
- vFabric SQLFire Limitations
- Troubleshooting Common Problems
- vFabric SQLFire Glossary
- Index
To define distributed system users, you must first connect to a SQLFire system and then execute a system
procedure to create a user account.
Note: To create the first user account, log in using an established SQLFire system user. After creating a
distributed system user, you can connect and assign database privileges using the new account.
For example:
sqlf
connect peer
'locators=localhost:10334;mcast-port=0;user=SB;auth-provider=BUILTIN;sqlfire.user.SB=PSB;password=PSB';
call sys.create_user('sqlfire.user.newuser', 'newpassword');
disconnect;
After creating one or more distributed system user accounts, you can use those credentials, instead of a system
user credential, to connect to SQLFire:
sqlf
connect client 'localhost:10334;user=newuser;password=newpassword';
Use distributed system user accounts with the GRANT and REVOKE statements to manage access to database
resources.
Configuring LDAP Directory Service
SQLFire can authenticate users against an existing LDAP directory service within your enterprise. LDAP
(lightweight directory access protocol) provides an open directory access protocol running over TCP/IP.
An LDAP directory service can quickly authenticate a user's name and password. The runtime library provided
with the Java Development Kit (JDK) includes libraries that allow you to access an LDAP directory service.
See the API documentation for the javax.naming.ldap package at http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/;
the LDAP section of the JNDI tutorial at http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jndi/ldap/; and the LDAP
section of the JNDI specification at
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/jndi/spec/jndi/jndi.5.html#pgfId=999241.
Examples of LDAP service providers include the 389 Directory Server and OpenLDAP.
Configure SQLFire to Use Your LDAP Directory Service
When configuring vFabric SQLFire to use LDAP as your authentication service, you must specify which LDAP
server to use.
Procedure
1. Set the auth-provider property to "LDAP" when you start each locator and server in the SQLFire distributed
system.
2. When you set the auth-provider property to "LDAP," SQLFire uses LDAP for authenticating distributed
system members as well as clients to the distributed system. For this reason, SQLFire members must supply
the user option (and optionally, the password option) at startup. If you omit the password option, the SQLFire
member prompts you for a password at the command line.
3. Set the sqlfire.auth-ldap-server property to the URL to the LDAP server. For example:
sqlfire.auth-ldap-server=ldap://server:port/
You can specify the LDAP server with only the server name, the server name, and its port number separated
by a colon, or an "ldap" URL. If a full URL is not provided, SQLFire uses unencrypted LDAP by default.
To use SSL-encrypted LDAP, provide a URL starting with "ldaps://".
Note: This property must be specified either as a Java system property or in the
sqlfire.properties file. For example, when booting a new SQLFire server with sqlf, you
could use the command-line option
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Configuring Authentication and Authorization