In a separate thread I was chastised for using the database to
generate primary keys. CELKO insisted "we invent a key with check
digits, validation rules and an audit trail within our enterprise". I
might have ignored the advice from someone else but CELKO's posts have

Generous experts:
My intention is to set up an order tracking system with the following
features:
1.  Records can be edited locally (Windows Server in office)

I seem to be in quite a delimma. when I make a recordset and test it DW
returns all the correct records but when I upload the page I get the No
Record error:
ADODB.Field error '800a0bcd'

I have no clue how to design a query for the following scenario in sql:
Suppose you have 2 tables with app. the following structure:
CREATE TABLE figure (
 `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

Hey all.
I'm trying to get hold of a database of books, preferably in sql or
something easily convertable.
The database is like a library's, with title, author, publisher, year,

I was wondering why no other PIM allows users to work like Ecco
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro), and allows users to customize
the schema of the database on which the application runs, ie. adding
columns/folders/fields to the Contact section.

I'm increasingly interested in Poker, playing around 10 hours a day.
As I see among my friends and on TV, the popularity of Poker is really
increasing from day to day.
As some of my friends already lost some money with online poker, I want

I need to implement some query operations on high-dimensional spatial data
(# dims is at least 10, and the number of objects is more than 100,000).
Among several spatial solutions, Xtree (Berchtold proposes) seems to be
reasonable in my problem.

I have the following issue (I hope I post the right group):
I'm thinking to write a tool for Interface Requirement Specification
(IRS).
Then I'm wondering about the db data model.

Thanks to a disgruntled former employee, I have a collection of
databases and no way to access them.
They appear to be encrypted in some way, and they each end in .vdb.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what sort of program to use to open

Hi there, I am in the process of writing a little PHP script to move a
single folder full of image files (110000+) into a larger folder structure.
I have already wrote a hashing class that gets the new folders based on
whatever input and it works fine. I let the code run on the ...

My code is running a bit slow.
I'm using a cursor to perform updates based on an ID. Any thoughts on
ways of optimising?
Your thoughts/ideas will be greatly appreciated.

I'd like to know the names of any implementation of temporal dbms available
around. If they are open source it's better for me.
Tx.

The following dbd query finds persons who like either red fruits or
crunchy veggies:
(and (select person instance *)
      (select * like (or (and (select fruit instance *)

1. I have a server with a database and I would like to have two
clients.
2. Then make i a view from one table. I use this view in both clients.
3. Client 1 modifiy the view