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Posted by Jason Nugent on July 14, 1998 at 06:40:24:
In Reply to: Re: Your opinions on database connectivity..... posted by Tricia Newbre on July 09, 1998 at 15:42:37:
: : What does everyone think about technologies such as
: : Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion, Server-Side Javascript (Livewire),
: : server-side java, and even Perl/Cgi or any others?
: : In your opinions, what are some pros/cons of each?
: : If you do not currently use some of these methods of connecting
: : to databases, etc, are there any you would consider for current or future
: : projects??
: Database connectivity can be a good / useful idea, I just wish the implementation were smoother -- and that I wasn't consequently ripping my hair out over the subject :)
: I am surprised though that while everybody's using the web to search existing databases, it seems that nobody's really bothering to use the technology the other way around, to add data to a database....
: Tricia
Not true, actually - Oracle's Designer/2000 application suite offers
a way to completely create database applications that will run in a browser.
You can add/modify/delete data just as if you were running it as a typical
Win95/NT application. Downsides - you must use Oracle's Web
Application Server with their Java Cartridge tecnology, which is only available
for Windows NT and solaris.
an other option (much cheaper) is to go with PostgreSQL, a free
RDBMS from Berkley. It is really robust and quite powerful, offering nearly the
functionality as a more expensive solution from, say, Oracle or Sybase. Integrate
this with a JDBC driver (source code included with postgres) and you have a fast,
easy to implement solution.
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