Archive for June, 2004

Court rules against reality

"According to a post on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, the state of New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order allowing a former customer of Web hosting and Internet service provider Network Access Corporation (nac.net) to take non-portable IP space with it as it leaves for another provider. If the ruling [...]

Posted by Wayne Niddery on June 30th, 2004 under General | 2 Comments »

The Ins and Outs of InterBase SQL (Tutorial presented at BorCon 2003)

The Ins and Outs of InterBase SQL
Preconference Tutorial
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Posted by Wayne Niddery on June 19th, 2004 under General | Comment now »

Browsing Large Volumes of Data

This issue comes up very often and so I decided it deserves its own article. It almost invariably arises in the situation where a legacy application using a database like Paradox, Dbase, or Access, is being rewritten with a new backend, or the programmer has only previously written applications using such databases.  The issue concerns the presentation of [...]

Posted by Wayne Niddery on June 15th, 2004 under General | 2 Comments »

Tables vs. Query Components - Differences between Desktop and C/S databases

The reason there are both Table and Query components is due to the fact there are table-oriented databases like Dbase, Paradox, or Access, and there are set-oriented databases like Interbase, Oracle, and MSSQL. These different types of database systems work and behave differently from one another and the same methods of access cannot be equally [...]

Posted by Wayne Niddery on June 15th, 2004 under General | Comment now »

Can Good Object-Oriented Design include Data-Aware Controls?

The following discusses components used in development with Delphi and C++Builder, but the principles discussed apply in general to the use of data-aware controls as provided in any development environment. There have been many discussions about whether it is permissible or advisable to use data-aware controls in a properly designed object-oriented project. Many argue [...]

Posted by Wayne Niddery on June 15th, 2004 under General | 3 Comments »

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