Re: URL for oracle?

Larry <lculver_at_my-deja.com> writes:

>No offence intended but your post indicates to me that you do not have
>much experience with databases. No, there is no such thing as a URL for
>referencing data in an oracle database. (PLEASE! no one post about
>database links. That will only confuse the issue).
 

>Perhaps if you were to post a description of the problem you are trying
>to solve...
 

>Larry

Yes, I have to explain it to someone else, who does work on the database.

I currently have a system that uses a file: URL in XML code to reference some data. Now I am told that I will need to also reference data from Oracle. This may mean that I, or someone else I work with, will have to write the code to actually do it, but it would be nice to follow existing standards if there were any. I am not, for example, expecting Netscape to know what to do with it. I just need a standard way to represent a database, and possibly a record within the database. (I can use other XML attributes to define the specific record, if necessary.)

I know there is a jdbc: URL protocol identifier, which may or may not help at all, but which Oracle does use.

Sorry for the lack of experience with databases.

• glen

>In article <8enn51$1qc_at_gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
> gah_at_ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) wrote:
>> I would like to know if there is a URL for referencing data
>> in an oracle database. That would be similar to a file: url for
>> referencing a disk file.
>>
>> It may or may not identify the particular record in the database,
>> as I could indicate that outside the URL. It would be nice if it
>> did, but is not necessary.
>>
>> I tried searching the sun and oracle web sites, but couldn't find
>> anything. (Too many hits on URL to have any chance of finding it.)
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> -- glen
>>
Received on Wed May 03 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST