Introduction

The schema installation has 4 main steps, regardless of platform:

1. Create the database user
2. Create the tables required
3. Populate them with initial configuration data
4. Set the customer name

All of the commands below should be run from an operating system command window e.g. bash (Linux) or cmd (Windows), and the current directory should be set to that containing the installation instructions for the target platform. E.g.

cd $RELEASE/phixflow-x.y.z-yyyymmdd/install

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 heavily 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.

sqlplus SYS/SYSPassword@SID as SYSDBA @schema/oracle/install/create_user

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

mysql --user=<myrootuser> --password

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

Populate the Database

Once you have created the database and/or database user, run the Installer to create the database tables and initial data.

The customer name in the commands below must exactly match the customer name used by PhixFlow Support to generate licence files. This argument (–customer="Your Customer Name") is optional, but if you don't specify a valid customer name you will not be able to install the licence key and you will not be able to run any tasks in PhixFlow.

The database connection strings given here should cover most cases of connecting to PhixFlow's own database. For more details, see Database URLs for how connection strings are constructed for the various database platforms supported by PhixFlow.

cd $RELEASE/phixflow-x.y.z-yyyymmdd/install

Oracle:

java -jar bin/installer.jar -url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:phixflow" -user=myuser -pass=mypass -install -customer="Your Customer Name"

Oracle (> 12c with PDB containers):

java -jar bin/installer.jar -url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@hostname:1521/phixflow" -user=myuser -pass=mypass -install -customer="Your Customer Name"

SQL Server:

java -jar bin/installer.jar -url="jdbc:sqlserver://myhost\myserver;databaseName=phixflow" -user=myuser -pass=mypass -install -customer="Your Customer Name"

MySQL:

java -jar bin/installer.jar -url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/phixflow" -user=<myuser> -pass=<mypass> -install -customer="Your Customer Name"