Procedures
This page provides a complete reference to the Neo4j procedures. Available procedures depend on the type of installation you have:
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Neo4j Enterprise Edition provides a larger set of procedures than Neo4j Community Edition.
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Cluster members have procedures that are not available in standalone mode.
To check which procedures are available in your Neo4j DBMS, use the Cypher command SHOW PROCEDURES
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SHOW PROCEDURES
Some procedures can only be run by users with For more information, see Cypher Manual → Manage Privileges. |
List of procedures
Name | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition | Comment |
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No |
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Yes |
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Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
In 4.1, signature changed to |
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Yes |
Yes |
In 4.1, signature changed to |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
New in 5.0. |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only Deprecated Deprecated in 5.6 and replaced by |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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No |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
Yes |
List of removed procedures
Name | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition | Comment |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed |
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Yes |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
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No |
Yes |
Removed Admin Only |
Procedure descriptions
Description |
Wait for an index to come online. Example: |
Signature |
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Description |
Wait for all indexes to come online. Example: |
Signature |
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Description |
Initiate and wait for a new check point, or wait any already on-going check point to complete. Note that this temporarily disables the |
Signature |
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Description |
Clears all query caches. |
Signature |
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Description |
Create a label |
Signature |
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Description |
Create a named node key constraint. Backing index will use specified index provider and configuration (optional). Yield: name, labels, properties, providerName, status |
Signature |
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Replaced by |
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Description |
Create a Property |
Signature |
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Description |
Create a RelationshipType |
Signature |
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Description |
Wait for the updates from recently committed transactions to be applied to any eventually-consistent full-text indexes. |
Signature |
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Description |
List the available analyzers that the full-text indexes can be configured with. |
Signature |
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Description |
Query the given full-text index. Returns the matching nodes and their Lucene query score, ordered by score. Valid key: value pairs for the
The |
Signature |
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Description |
Query the given full-text index. Returns the matching relationships and their Lucene query score, ordered by score. Valid key: value pairs for the
The |
Signature |
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Description |
Provides information regarding the database. |
Signature |
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Description |
List all available labels in the database. |
Signature |
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Description |
List all locks at this database. |
Signature |
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Description |
This procedure can be used by client side tooling to test whether they are correctly connected to a database. The procedure is available in all databases and always returns true. A faulty connection can be detected by not being able to call this procedure. |
Signature |
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Description |
Triggers an index resample and waits for it to complete, and after that clears query caches. After this procedure has finished queries will be planned using the latest database statistics. |
Signature |
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Description |
List all property keys in the database. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
List all available relationship types in the database. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Schedule resampling of an index. Example: |
Signature |
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Description |
Schedule resampling of all outdated indexes. |
Signature |
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Description |
Show the derived property schema of the nodes in tabular form. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Show the derived property schema of the relationships in tabular form. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Visualize the schema of the data. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Clear collected data of a given data section. Valid sections are |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Start data collection of a given data section. Valid sections are |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Retrieve statistical data about the current database. Valid sections are |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Retrieve all available statistical data about the current database, in an anonymized form. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Retrieve the status of all available collector daemons, for this database. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Stop data collection of a given data section. Valid sections are |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
This procedure provides feedback about the validity of a setting value. It does not change the setting. The procedure returns:
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Signature |
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Description |
Checks the connectivity of this instance to other cluster members. Not all ports are relevant to all members. Valid values for 'port-name' are: [CLUSTER, RAFT]. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Marks a server in the topology as not suitable for new allocations. It will not force current allocations off the server. This is useful when deallocating databases when you have multiple unavailable servers. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Returns endpoints of this instance. Used in disaster recovery. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Overview of installed protocols. Note that this can only be executed on a cluster core member. |
Signature |
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Description |
The toggle can pause or resume the pulling of new transactions for a specific database.
If paused, the database secondary does not pull new transactions from the other cluster members for the specific database.
The database secondary is still available for reads, you can perform a backup, etc.
Deprecated in 5.6 and replaced by
Pause transaction pulling for database
neo4j
Resume transaction pulling for database
neo4j
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Signature |
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New in 5.6
Description |
The toggle can pause or resume the pulling of new transactions for a specific database. If paused, the database secondary does not pull new transactions from the other cluster members for the specific database. The database secondary is still available for reads, you can perform a backup, etc.
Pause transaction pulling for database
neo4j
Resume transaction pulling for database
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Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Removes the cordon on a server, returning it to 'enabled'. |
Signature |
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Description |
List DBMS components and their versions. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Provides information regarding the DBMS. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Kill network connection with the given connection id. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Kill all network connections with the given connection ids. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
List the active lock requests granted for the transaction executing the query with the given query id. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
List capabilities. |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
List all configuration settings whose names include the Use this procedure to check a setting’s values, investigate when a value was set, or find information on valid values. Results include:
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Signature |
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Description |
List all accepted network connections at this instance that are visible to the user. |
Signature |
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Description |
List all memory pools, including sub pools, currently registered at this instance that are visible to the user. |
Signature |
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Description |
Place a database in quarantine or remove thereof.
It must be executed over |
Signature |
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Mode |
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Description |
Query JMX management data by domain and name. Valid queries should use the syntax outlined in the javax.management.ObjectName API documentation. |
Signature |
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Description |
Returns endpoints of this instance. |
Signature |
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Description |
With this method you can set the allocator, which is responsible to select servers for hosting databases. The only current option is |
Signature |
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Mode |
WRITE |
Description |
With this method you can set the default number of primaries and secondaries. |
Signature |
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Mode |
WRITE |
Description |
Changes the default database to the provided value. The database must exist and the old default database must be stopped. |
Signature |
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Mode |
WRITE |
Description |
List failed job runs. There is a limit for amount of historical data. |
Signature |
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Description |
List the job groups that are active in the database internal job scheduler. |
Signature |
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Description |
List all jobs that are active in the database internal job scheduler. |
Signature |
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Description |
Clears authentication and authorization cache. |
Signature |
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Description |
Update a given setting value.
Passing an empty value results in removing the configured value and falling back to the default value.
Changes do not persist and are lost if the server is restarted.
In a clustered environment, |
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Description |
Show the current user. |
Signature |
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Description |
With this method the configuration of the Topology Graph can be displayed. |
Signature |
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Description |
Upgrade the system database schema if it is not the current schema. |
Signature |
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Description |
Report the current status of the system database sub-graph schema. |
Signature |
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Description |
Provides attached transaction metadata. |
Signature |
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Description |
Attaches a map of data to the transaction. The data will be printed when listing queries, and inserted into the query log. |
Signature |
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