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Replicate Multiple Exact Online Accounts
Replicate multiple Exact Online accounts to one or many databases.
CData Sync for Exact Online is a stand-alone application that provides solutions for a variety of replication scenarios such as replicating sandbox and production instances into your database. Both Sync for Windows and Sync for Java include a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easy to manage multiple Exact Online connections. In this article we show how to use the CLI to replicate multiple Exact Online accounts.
Configure Exact Online Connections
You can save connection and email notification settings in an XML configuration file. To replicate multiple Exact Online accounts, use multiple configuration files. Below is an example configuration to replicate Exact Online to SQLite:
Windows
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
<DatabaseProvider>System.Data.SQLite</DatabaseProvider>
<ConnectionString>Region='United States';Division=5512;</ConnectionString>
<ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
<NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
<DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
<TaskSchedulerStartTime>09:51</TaskSchedulerStartTime>
<TaskSchedulerInterval>Never</TaskSchedulerInterval>
</CDataSync>
Java
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
<DatabaseProvider>org.sqlite.JDBC</DatabaseProvider>
<ConnectionString>Region='United States';Division=5512;</ConnectionString>
<ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
<NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
<DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
</CDataSync>
Exact Online uses the OAuth authentication standard. You can use the embedded OAuth credentials or you can register an OAuth app with Exact to obtain your own. In addition to the OAuth values, provide the Region. If Division is not set, the default Division is determined.
See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information.
Configure Queries for Each Exact Online Instance
Sync enables you to control replication with standard SQL. The REPLICATE statement is a high-level command that caches and maintains a table in your database. You can define any SELECT query supported by the Exact Online API. The statement below caches and incrementally updates a table of Exact Online data:
REPLICATE Accounts;
You can specify a file containing the replication queries you want to use to update a particular database. Separate replication statements with semicolons. The following options are useful if you are replicating multiple Exact Online accounts into the same database:
You can use a different table prefix in the REPLICATE SELECT statement:
REPLICATE PROD_Accounts SELECT * FROM Accounts
Alternatively, you can use a different schema:
REPLICATE PROD.Accounts SELECT * FROM Accounts
Run Sync
After you have configured the connection strings and replication queries, you can run Sync with the following command-line options:
Windows
ExactOnlineSync.exe -g MyProductionExactOnlineConfig.xml -f MyProductionExactOnlineSync.sql
Java
java -Xbootclasspath/p:c:\sqlitejdbc.jar -jar ExactOnlineSync.jar -g MyProductionExactOnlineConfig.xml -f MyProductionExactOnlineSync.sql
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