All,
Can you folks save me some time and headaches?
I have a table with information on each individual in my business. (PKID;
Job Title; FName; LName; etc).  I have a seperate table for each evaluator

Could someone provide me information (tutorial), how to build custom ODBC
driver? Actualy I need a solution, how to translate SQL queries sent by
particalar application (change field names, table names, etc.).
Thank you all

I have a language table 'CODE_LANGUAGE' where we defines languages.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CODE_LANGUAGE] (
[language_id] [smallint] NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
[language_name] [varchar(20)] NOT NULL

I have design database model for Tag structure. Do u think del.icio.us
has same structure ?
I am also including heirarchy of tags, which delicious has not
implemented.

can someone recommend some embedded realtime Database?
The targeting OS are Windows CE and Windows XP embedded.
Thanks in advance,

Hell I am somewhat rusty to DB design, it has been a while.  I wanted
to create a Table with one primary Key and multiple varchar columns.
Could be as such
1343 - value1,value2,value3,

Is there a way to easily generate a random, fixed length (between 5-10
chars is fine) string in MySQL? Uniqueness isn't an issue, but it needs
to be alphanumeric - no symbols. I need to add a verification code
column to an existing, already populated table. Ideally I'd like to do

Is there such a thing as a type of database that would allow one to
(efficiently in space and time) store hundreds of thousands of tables -
many tiny, some huge?

Is there a good free database program that exists for Windows XP that
has a capacity of between 2 and 6 gigabytes?  I have a little
experience with Access but the files I am dealing with are too big for
access.

What is the architecture terminology where there is one central server
that connects to several database servers as if they are working as one
database?
Thank you.   

Here's the scenario:
The organization I work for has implemented a new Financial and HR
system(SCT Banner on Oracle).  We have an existing helpdesk database
implemented with an access frontend and SQL server backend.

I have the following query and I need to find the  mode, median for
va.answer column.
select  a.ASSOC_NAME,va.ANSWER
from instrument i,dept_assessment da,v_assessment_answer

We have a need for some sort of database package that can handle the
following specs:
Average data rate - 30 megabits/sec.
Max # inserts - 40,000 records/sec.

I want to implement the "outer join" functionality in Java. Can
somebody explain the pseudo code for the same. OR what needs to be done
to extend the hash-join Java code of equijoin(I have the hash join code
for equijoin with me).

i have two tables. one has the value for each answer in three columns
(1,2,3). in the other table i have the response of the clas a column
with the values 1,2,3 . i need to compute the sum of the class.
first table 1   2    3