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Using the Plugins console, you manage your WebManager Component Bundles (WCBs), most commonly referred to as plugins in this documentation. XperienCentral is based on a modular architecture. Plugins are specific OSGi bundles with a Java API. See https://www.osgi.org/developer/architecture/ for more information. For complete information on developing plugins for XperienCentral see Plugins.
Using the console, you can install, uninstall, update, and start and stop plugins.shocker and goodnight.In the Database Connections panel, you can view information from the database(s) being used by XperienCentral. You can view the database's metadata as well as a list of all the tables in the database(s). By selecting a table from the list, you can see the fields it contains and the format of those fields. You can also query the database in order to retrieve the current value of a specific field or fields as well as to alter the structure of the database.
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| Name | The name of the database. |
| JNDI Resource | The name of the JNDI resource used by the database. |
| Product name | The manufacturer of the database (Oracle, MySQL, etc.). |
| Product version | The major.minor version number of the database. |
| Driver name | The name of the database driver. |
| Driver version | The major.minor version of the database driver. |
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Database Tables
In the "Tables" section, a selectable list of all the tables in a database is available from which you can select a database. To see a summary of the fields in a database table, click it. The information that is shown for the fields in a table vary by database. The following is an example of the fields belonging to a table in a MySQL database:
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The fields of the table are shown along with the following information:
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| Name | The name of the database field. |
| Data type | The type of data stored in the field (INT, VARCHAR, and so forth) |
| Length | The length of the field in bytes. |
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You can enter Structured Query Language (SQL) statements in order to manage a database and retrieve the values of fields in a database's tables on the "Query" tab.
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Use extreme caution when using SQL statements such as DELETE, JOIN, and others that can affect the structure of the database and/or tables and fields because doing so could have an adverse affect on your website(s). |
To enter perform a query, follow these steps:
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