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titleVersion 11

Introduction

The schema installation and upgrade process in 11 onwards has been simplified so that Phixflow manages most of the process. 

A DBA however is required to configure the initial database user/schema that Phixflow will use. Phixflow manages its own tables and therefore requires being connected with a user with sufficient permissions to create and drop tables and indexes.

Create the database user

If you are  Database Administrator (DBA) and no database / login have previously been set up, you should use the following commands to create a new database / user.

Creating the database user is dependent on the database platform, and will often have to be varied to meet local requirements regarding naming and security. These example commands will be adequate basic installations.

Platform

Create the database user

Oracle:

This command will prompt for the name of the user to be created.

Code Block
sqlplus SYS/SYSPassword@SID as SYSDBA @install/oracle/create_user


Sql Server:

Before creating the database, ensure that default collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS

Code Block
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('collation');

If it is not, please talk to the database administrator to get this updated to the required collation (see also also Install MS SQL Server).

This command creates a local (SQL Server) login, a user with required user mappings, sets the password for the login and creates the database.

Code Block
sqlcmd -S localhost\myservice -i /install/sql_server/create_database_and_user.sql -v dbName="phixflow" dbLogin="phixflow" dbUser="phixflow" dbPassword="mypass"

Run the following command to confirm the collation setting is correct.

Code Block
SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX('DBNAME', 'Collation');


MySQL:

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Connect to the database as root (or an administrator):

Code Block
mysql --user=<myrootuser> --password

If you followed the suggested PhixFlow installation notes for installing MySQL, you will be using unix_socket authentication (see Install MySQL), and the command to log into the database as root is simply:

Code Block
sudo mysql

Create the user, supplying the name of the database, the user and the password in the commands below:

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create database phixflow CHARACTER SET = 'utf8' COLLATE = 'utf8_bin';
create user '<myuser>'@'%' identified by '<mypass>';
grant all privileges on phixflow.* to '<myuser>'@'%';
exit



SQL Server:

Note

If a database, with login details, was provided (i.e. you did not perform the step above for creating the login, user and database), please check that the database has the correct collation:

E.g.

Code Block
SELECT DATABASEPROPERTYEX('phixflow', 'Collation');



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