MobiLink Synchronization User's Guide
  Writing Synchronization Scripts
    Introduction to synchronization scripts

A simple synchronization script

MobiLink provides many events that you can exploit, but it is not mandatory to provide scripts for each event. In a simple synchronization model, you may need only a few scripts.

Downloading all the rows from the table to each remote database synchronizes the ULProduct table in the CustDB sample application. In this case, no additions are permitted at the remote databases. You can implement this simple form of synchronization with a single script; in this case only one event has a script associated with it.

The MobiLink event that controls the rows to be downloaded during each synchronization is named the download_cursor event. Cursor scripts must contain SELECT statements. The MobiLink synchronization server uses these queries to define a cursor. In the case of a download_cursor script, the cursor selects the rows to be downloaded to one particular table in the remote database.

In the CustDB sample application, there is a single download_cursor script for the ULProduct table in the sample application, which consists of the following query.

SELECT prod_id, price, prod_name
FROM ULProduct

This query generates a result set. The rows that make up this result set are downloaded to the client. In this case, all the rows of the table are downloaded.

The MobiLink synchronization server knows to send the rows to the ULProduct application table because this script is associated with both the download_cursor event and ULProduct table by the way it is stored in the consolidated database. Sybase Central allows you to make these associations.

You can write more complicated synchronization scripts. For example, you could write a script that downloads only recently modified rows, or one that provides different information to each remote database.