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1. Locate the frevvoDS data source url parameter.url="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/frevvo"/>. You can change the name "frevvo" to whatever you wish, " for example. But it must match the database name you create in your SQL server. See verify connection Url below.
2. Create a utf8 encoded database ""frevvo" (assuming you left the url parameter database name as the default) in your SQL server
3. In the  installation locate the script <frevvo-home>/data/sql/forms-<database type>.sql. Ex: for mySQL the script is named <frevvo-home>/data/sql/forms-mysql5.sql
4. Run that script in your "" database. That will create all the tables required to persist submissions
5. Set the frevvoDS data source parameters username and password to a user that has write permissions to the "" database.
6. The submissions database setup is now complete.

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Configuration of the connection Url is key to successfully connection connect the  server to your database. Consult your DBA to assist with connection issues.

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As of SQL 2000, Microsoft SQL allows installation of multiple SQL named instances. If your SQL server was installed this way you must use the instance parameter. For example if you database instance was named xyzzy:

{<url>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://e00sca:59377/frevvo;instance=xyzzy</url>

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If you are trying a different database type and do not see an example in frevvo.xml for  your database, you can create a new data source entry. Hibernate supports the following dialects however  has only been certified to run with a subset of these databases. For additional dialects see Hibernate documentation. Database Setup

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•  org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect
•  org.hibernate.dialect.Sybase11Dialect

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Via the configuration file:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_unicode_cicii

Via the mySQL cmd tool:

ALTER DATABASE frevvo CHARACTER SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL';
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ALTER DATABASE frevvo CHARACTER SET utf8 utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER DATABASE users CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE formsubmission CONVERT TO`frevvo16089`.`formsubmission` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
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SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS;
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS;

Run the SQL Scripts

What does it mean to run the SQL scripts? The *.sql file is a text file with SQL statements to be executed by the SQL server. Here is one way to run an SQL script for a mySql database to create the tables needed by  on a windows box.

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