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-<H2><A NAME="s5">5.</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5">Databases</A></H2>
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-<P>Spider allows the creation of local or remote databases. It supports
-chained databases, allowing several different databases to be scanned
-with one simple command. Importing of databases is limited at present
-to the standard AK1A databases such as OBLAST and the DB0SDX QSL
-database but will expand with time.</P>
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-<H2><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5.1">Creating databases</A>
-</H2>
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-<P>Creating a database could not be more simple. All the commands are
-sent from the cluster prompt as the <EM>sysop</EM> user.</P>
-<P>To create a database you use the command <EM>dbcreate</EM>. It can
-be used in 3 different ways like so ..</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbcreate <name>
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>To simply create a database locally, you just tell the command the
-name of the database. This does not create the actual database, it
-simply defines it to say that it exists.</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbcreate <name> chain <name> [<name>...]
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>This creates a chained database entry. The first database will be
-scanned, then the second, the third etc...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbcreate <name> remote <name>
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>This creates a remote entry. the first name field is the database
-name at the remote node, then the remote switch, then the actual
-node_call of the remote node, for example...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbcreate buckmaster remote gb7dxc
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>Remote databases cannot be chained, however, the last database in a
-chain can be a remote database.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5.2">Importing databases</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>The only databases that Spider can currently import are the standard
-AK1A databases such as OBLAST or the DB0SDX qsl and address database.
-This will be added to with time.</P>
-<P>To import such a database, first put the file somewhere useful like /tmp
-and then issue the following command ...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbimport oblast /tmp/OBLAST.FUL
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>This will update the existing local oblast database or create it if
-it does not exist.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.3">5.3</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5.3">Checking available databases</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Once a database is created, you will want to check that it has been
-added. To do this use the <EM>dbavail</EM> command. This will
-output the available databases. For example ...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbavail
-DB Name Location Chain
-qsl Local
-buck GB7ADX
-hftest GB7DXM
-G0VGS de GB7MBC 3-Feb-2001 1925Z >
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.4">5.4</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5.4">Looking up databases</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>To look for information in a defined database, simply use the <EM>dbshow</EM>
-command, for example ...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbshow buckmaster G0YLM
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>will show the information for the callsign G0YLM from the buckmaster
-database if it exists. To make things more standard for the users
-you can add an entry in the Aliases file so that it looks like a standard
-<EM>show</EM> command like this ...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-'^sh\w*/buc', 'dbshow buckmaster', 'dbshow',
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>Now you can simply use show/buckmaster or an abreviation.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.5">5.5</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc5.5">Removing databases</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>To delete an existing database you use the <EM>dbremove</EM> command.
-For example ...</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-dbremove oblast
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>would remove the oblast database and its associated datafile from the
-system. There are no warnings or recovery possible from this command.
-If you remove a database it ceases to exist and would have to be created
-from scratch if you still required it.</P>
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