Data Access Hangout 2014-12-08

Date

08 Dec 2014

Attendees

• Gregory Dubois-Felsmann

• Unknown User (xiuqin)

• Trey Roby
• Unknown User (jar)
• Tatiana Goldina
• Unknown User (zhang)

• Andy Salnikov

• John Gates

• Unknown User (danielw)

• Fabrice Jammes

• Kian-Tat Lim

• Jacek Becla

Discussion items

jdbc drive

• finally works (mysql-connector-java-5.1.34)
• problems with newer version (mysql-connector-java-5.1.6), due to "SHOW COLLATION"
• fixed after the meeting

account  at ipac for Jacek requested (Xiuqin)

send credentials for slac qserv to Tatiana (Jacek)

going ahead with prototype for metaServ

• created new repo
• started work on schema, see  DM-1634 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• is this short term or building production system?
  • short term, will revisit and maybe (big maybe) turn towards production system

terminology

• need to realign terminology: "repo", "data set" etc
• in butler: data set = collection of rows (e.g. one file)
• IPAC, and in the proposed schema: data set = set of files
• action: ipac team will propose

producing a form for capturing metadata about data sets

• quick and dirty, throw away
• slac should do
• try django in python

APIs

• 3: qserv, imgServ, metadata

• want to discuss shortly
• IPAC team will document there thoughts (in newly created SUI confluence space)

DDT tables

• action: Tatiana will provide input

Next meeting

• no meeting next Monday (Jacek out of office, K-T on vacations)
• then 2 week holiday break at slac
• will resume in early January
• if we need to, we will organize ad-hoc meeting next Tue