Re: Database Report Generator - beta testers needed

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1084720466.164426_at_yasure>...
> Hans Forbrich wrote:
>
> > If, after reading and understanding the first chapter of that book, you
> > still honestly believe you have created a credible cross-platform product,
> > then I would be pleased to attend a presentation and/or read a paper on how
> > you accomplished this. (Which I would hope to see announced in
> > comp.databases.oracle.marketplace) In that case, in spite of several more
> > years at SQL than you, I probably have much to learn from you.
> >
> >
> > /Hans
> > contactforbrich at telusplanet dot net (remove contact)
>
> I'll go out on a limb here. I'll put $100 US on the line that they
> haven't done anything of the kind. So far their largest accomplishment
> appears to be spamming the usenet.
>
> There is no possible way to write code that can work in an environment
> where reads don't block writes and make it also work where reads do
> block writes other than, as you say, "the typical Java workarounds (such
> as attempting to recreate a RDBMS inside the Java core."

Of course there is a way. You set several environment variables, and execute different code trees for different blocking scenarios, and allow optional parameters to deal with odd situations like size of array fetches. Coding this takes somewhere between 10% and 5000% of the time it took to write the original code, assuming the original code is useful.

I doubt if your $100 is in danger.

>
> Their entire claim is utter nonsense. And as DR and Howard have said ...
> without multi-tables joins ... the product, excuse me the Beta, is
> worthless.

I remember being surprised 15 years ago that a particular database was limited to 5 tables. In fact, look at the ANSI tables referenced limit in http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96540/ap_standard_sql.htm#10870 I'm surprised at that!

jg

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