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Tag: migration

  • Horde_Rdo Many to Many relations and Horde DB Migrator

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    Many to Many relations btween to object types or table rows are usually saved to a database using a third table. For example, if every server can have multiple services and each service can run on multiple computers, we need a third table to store the relations: server table: server_id | server_name 1 | hoellenhund.internal.company.com…

  • Migrating Horde 3 to Horde 4 – Top 6 ways to mess up

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    There have been some migrations of Horde 3 to Horde 4 recently – not all went smooth from the start. Some top issues of messing things up and how to avoid it: initial application dimpIn Horde 3 dimp was a separate application which provided an ajax interface to imp. It has since been merged into…