Re: [Q] generating html from a database?
Date: 1996/04/29
Message-ID: <4m2kis$h47_at_RedDragon.Empire.Net>#1/1
In article <4ltija$qcg_at_morgoth.sfu.ca>, dedmunds_at_sfu.ca wrote:
>
>I'd like input on how easy/difficult it will be to create HTML
documents
>from a relational database.
>
>For example, if one created a product database containing all the
standard
>information (name, order number, product description, pricing,
etc.), what
>would be the easiest method of producing a separate HTML document
for each
>product in the database? Report generators seem to focus on
producing
>WYSIWYG output rather than text files containing HTML markup
commands.
>My current plan is to use a batch language (like REXX) to query
the database
>and build up the output.
>
>I would be very interested in hearing how others have approached
this
>problem for various databases. Are there industrial strength
databases (DB/2,
>Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, etc.) that have tools to facilitate
this process?
>
>Regards,
>
>Darran Edmundson
>dedmunds_at_sfu.ca
>
It depends on what db you are using. With SQL Server 6.5 you can
use the Web Page Wizard to create HTML pages. The alternative is
using the Internet Database Connector in MS Internet Information
Server. I do like the idea of using REXX to create HTML by
querying the database.
Chris Received on Mon Apr 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST