Re: DBD/DB validator?

["John A. Priller" <priller@frib.msu.edu>]

I wrote a mass of python scripting code to do this for me, parse the 
generated app.dbd file then parse the substitution files and databases.  
I also do sanity checking for things like invalid field names, invalid 
menu selections, duplicate record names, duplicate fields in records, 
links pointing to non-existent records, aliases with non-existent 
targets... pretty much every stupid mistake I can remember myself making.

On 4/23/2015 5:56 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Ages ago I remember there was a tool called 'dbst' that could be used 
> to validate DBD/DB setups and that could dump DBs in a sorted, 
> normalized way (only non-default value fields, standard indentation) 
> to make them easily comparable with diff and such.
>
> Is dbst still around? I suppose there are more recent ways nowadays. 
> Perl/Python? Web-Service?
> (I do like the idea of using the same library as the IOC, though...)
>
> What is a good way to do database validation?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> ~Ralph

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