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Video tutorial:		Setup SQL logging with MySQL (Part 1/3)
Video tutorial:		Setup SQL logging with MySQL (Part 2/3)
Video tutorial:		Setup SQL logging with MySQL (Part 3/3)

Ozeki NG allows you to maintain a log of every incoming and outgoing SMS in a database. This option can be useful if you want to use SQL queries to produce various reports. SQL logging can be configured with any database server the has an ODBC or OleDb driver. For example you can use MSSQL, Oracle, Access, MySQL, Postgres, etc... to store SMS traffic information.

The SQL logging option allows you to specify the database connection string and the SQL statements used to store the traffic information. The SQL statements are SQL templates that hold keywords that are replaced to the appropriate content, prior to the execution of the SQL command.

To enable SQL logging you should open the Server preferences form from the Edit menu. In the server preferences form click on Databases tab, then select Logging database settings (Figure 1). On this form check the Enable SQL reporting checkbox.

Figure 1. - Enable SQL logging

After SQL logging is enabled, you must make sure the database connection string allows you to connect to your database server. For example if you use Microsoft SQL Server to log incoming and outgoing messages, you would use the following connection string:

Microsoft SQL Server connection string Provider=SQLNCLI;Server=YourServer;Database=YourDatabase;UID=YourUsername;PWD=YourPassword;

In your database server you must have two database tables created: inbox and outbox for storing the traffic information. The table layout for the inbox and outbox database tables are:

Microsoft SQL Server create table layout CREATE TABLE outbox ( id int IDENTITY(1,1), username varchar(30), msgtype varchar(160), msgid varchar(60), callbackid varchar(255), sender varchar(30), receiver varchar(30), msgsubject varchar(1024), msgdata text, acceptedfordeliverytime datetime, deliveredtonetworktime datetime, deliveredtohandsettime datetime, operator varchar(30), route varchar(30), status varchar(130), errormessage varchar(1024), cost varchar(10) ); CREATE TABLE inbox ( id int IDENTITY(1,1), username varchar(30), msgtype varchar(160), msgid varchar(60), sender varchar(30), receiver varchar(30), msgsubject varchar(1024), msgdata text, senttime datetime, receivedtime datetime, operator varchar(30) );

The SMS gateway will use the SQL Commands configured on the server preferences form to update these tables.