Re: database with ownership cost restructured

I just imagined jdbc driver noticed "<ad>select apr from lowest_morgage_rates<ad>", stopped extracting current rowset and went quering for cheap memory real estate instead.

alohakaku_at_yahoo.com (Aloha Kakuikanu) wrote in message news:<5370feb0.0201241405.263a0109_at_posting.google.com>...
> The project I'm participating on LOCD - Low Ownership Cost Database -
> is RDBMS where the cost of the database is covered by adverticements
> that database server sends to it's clients. Now, the architecture team
> has problems defining the way to channel ads to the client. It is easy
> to sent an ad from client to the server as a comment to sql query, but
> there seems to be no standard way for server to push ads to the
> clients. So far we have only 2 ideas:
>
> 1. Adding an extra column
>
> The drawback of this solution is that client can easily ignore ads.
>
> 2. Adding xml ads tags into all the columns of the resut set.
>
> Is there a standard approach for #2 or is there a solution that I'm
> missing?
Received on Fri Jan 25 2002 - 19:27:47 CET