{"id":2374,"date":"2012-07-18T00:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2013-01-29T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T16:23:47","slug":"know-your-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Box – Know your hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before today, I have written many articles that were concentrated on one topic in SQL Server or Perl or Visual Basic.<\/p>\n

Starting today, I am going to kick off a full blown development exercise named PROJECT ALPHA<\/span>. The purpose of this project is to create a test environment for developing a PERL based Extract Translate and Load (ETL<\/a>) solution.<\/p>\n

The following is a list of business requirements for this ETL project.<\/p>\n

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  1. A runnng trace file will be created in the LOGS directory.<\/li>\n
  2. Connect to an FTP server using basic authentication.<\/li>\n
  3. Download a file from the FTP server into a INBOUND directory.<\/li>\n
  4. Remove the file from the FTP server.<\/li>\n
  5. Import the data file into a STAGING table.<\/li>\n
  6. Call a stored procedure to UPSERT the data into the production table.<\/li>\n
  7. Create a directory with today’s date in the ARCHIVE directory.<\/li>\n
  8. Move the data file from the INBOUND directory to today’s directory under ARCHIVE.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All these steps need to be restartable. In short, a job that fails at step\u00a04 can be re-executed without any human intervention.<\/p>\n

    We will need to create a virtual test environment that has an File Transfer Protocol (FTP<\/a>) server. The best way to allocate resources such as memory, cpu, and video is to know what hardware you have before giving it away to the virtual machine.<\/p>\n

    The is a great utility from CUPID<\/a> called CPU-Z which lists this information.<\/p>\n

    A\u00a0screen shot\u00a0showing 8 virtual cores.<\/p>\n

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    A screen shot showing 4 GB of memory.<\/p>\n

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    \nA screen shot showing 1 GB of video memory.<\/p>\n

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    Windows explorer can be used to figure out how much space can be used to create a virtual hard disk.<\/p>\n

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    With all this information jotted down in our notepad, we now can move onto the next step, allocating a virtual hard disk from which we will create a virtual machine.\u00a0 Next time, we will be using Virtual Box<\/a> from Oracle to perform this task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Before today, I have written many articles that were concentrated on one topic in SQL Server or Perl or Visual Basic. Starting today, I am going to kick off a full blown development exercise named PROJECT ALPHA. The purpose of this project is to create a test environment for developing a PERL based Extract Translate and Load (ETL) solution. The following is a list of business requirements for this ETL project. A runnng trace file will be created in the LOGS directory. Connect to an FTP server using basic authentication.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[492,491,12,494,15,495,490,493],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-cpu-z","tag-cpuid","tag-free-code","tag-ftp-server","tag-john-f-miner-iii","tag-perl-etl-project","tag-project-alpha","tag-virtual-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}