In most tables it is enough to have a stored procedure that performs Update Else Insert logic for data managment. However, in some cases we do not want to destroy the old data with an update statement. Instead we want to maintain history up to a certain number of versions. This article presents a method for doing so.
2001-08-27
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A great deal of data in any RDBMS is hierarchial. This article presents a technique for aggregating this data.
2001-08-22
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Sometimes it is necessary to save binary data such as zip files, pictures or office documents into the database. This article looks at a way of using Java to perform this task.
2001-08-07
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The following stored procedure will demonstrate the use of cursor metadata. Using cursor metadata we can get information about an SQL statement and use that information to dynamically generate other code such as HTML or other stored procedures.
2001-07-27
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This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
2001-07-20
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Lots of applications store user names and passwords in the database. This article presents a method for encypting this information using Java.
2001-07-19
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By ChrisJenkins
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