Need help in pulling SQL query out of log file...

[Sagar Deshmukh]

On Monday, 13 October 2014 22:40:07 UTC-7, alex23  wrote:
> On 14/10/2014 11:47 AM, Sagar Deshmukh wrote:
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> > I have a log file which has lot of information like..SQL query.. number of records read...records loaded etc..
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> > My requirement is i would like to read the SQL query completly and write it to another txt file..
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> Generally we encourage people to post what they've tried to the list. It 
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> helps us identify what you know and what you need help with.
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> However, given:
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>  > the log file may not be always same so can not make static choices...
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> You'll probably want to use regular expressions:
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>      https://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html
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> Regexps let you search through the text for known patterns and extract 
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> any that match. To extract all SQL query sections, you'll need to come 
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> up with a way of uniquely identifying them from all other sections. 
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> Looking at your example log file, it looks like they're all of the format:
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>      SQL Query [<the actual sql query>]
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>  From that we can determine that all SQL queries are prefixed by 'SQL 
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> Query [' and suffixed by ']', so the content you want is everything 
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> between those markers. So a possible regular expression might be:
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>      SQL Query \[(.*?)\]
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> To quickly explain this:
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>      1. "SQL Query " matches on that string
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>      2. Because [] have meaning for regexes, to match on literal 
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> brackets you need to escape them via \[ and \]
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>      3. ( ) is a group, whats contained in here will be returned
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>      4. .* means to grab all matching text
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>      5. ? means to do an "ungreedy" grab ie it'll stop at the first \] 
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> it encounters.
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> Pulling the queries out of your log file should be as simple as:
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>      import re
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>      log = open('logfile').read()
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>      queries = re.findall("SQL Query \[(.*?)\]", log, re.DOTALL)
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> Because the queries can fall across multiple lines, the re.DOTALL flag 
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> is required to treat EOL markers as characters.
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> Hope this helps.

Hi,

This helps and its working... Thank you so much....