Question

How do I create a database from scratch, creating the tables and populating them with some sample data, in MySQL, SQL Server as well as Oracle using a single ANT build?

Answer 1

What we do with ant and mysql is like this:

Prepare a SQL file like this:

drop database if exists test;
create database test character set utf8;
use test;

create table Account_ (
...fields
) engine InnoDB;

create .... more tables ...

Use the ant script like this:

<exec executable="mysql" input="test.sql" />

So I think the main problem you have to deal with is to generate sample sql file, not working with Ant.

What we are doing is to write a sample-sql-builder which generates data according to ftl files (which shows the table structures). We just run it from ant, the all the logic is in pure java.