"Joe "Nuke Me Xemu" Foster" <joe_at_bftsi0.UUCP> wrote in message
news:1079920954.616425_at_news-1.nethere.net...
> "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message
<news:3z32c.18$zW4.150_at_news.oracle.com>...
>
> > Imagine RemoteSystemA owner provided you with EDI, XML or others
ShmackML
> > instead of remote database connection. Suppose all you need to know is
how
> > many purchase orders did the system processed last month. Does it mean
you
> > have to import *all* the orders to your system first?
>
> Of course not. The remote system is most likely Object-Oriented, so
> you merely navigate, a/k/a chase pointers, to the orders collections,
> iterate through each and every order, and maintain a counter. That's
> N+K network round trips for N orders, where K is finite but unbounded.
How convenient. :-\
Received on Mon Mar 22 2004 - 08:27:17 CST
