for some time now I am looking for a friendly (and of course powerful)
desktop database for my research and home uses. It should be possible
to build moderately complex relational database structures.
The first that comes to my mind is Filemaker, although this is not

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What's the recommended way for naming linked field?
For example, if we have an employee table, being the "EmployeeId"
field the primary key, shouldn't all other tables that reference an
employee have a "EmployeeId" field as a foreign key?

Hi, I'm looking for some documents that state the comparison between
processing cost (I/O cost and CPU cost) and communication cost of the
recent computing systems. I'd prefer to have the materials in the
forms of research papers, research surveys and trusted resources that

Can anybody tell me how can i copy a sql table (including its
structure and data) which is in one system to the other system in
oracle9i. Thank you..

I am working on a .Net project with Sql Server 2000 as backend. I use
sql query in my project. I want to make my project to database
indepentant i.e it should run on both SQL Server or Qracle. Is there
any stuff that will give a clear picture of query compatibilty between

I have a requirement where in i get the month,year, day (i.e.,
sun,mon,tue) as inputs and the output should be the dates of that
month..
Can anybody guide me on this...

I'm looking for this for north america.  I've seen loads of databases
with zip, city name, lat, lon, timezone, etc. but I need something
that's more of a grid where I can look up a lat/lon and get a timezone
back.

Hi again.
My problem now is when I use Cross Join on the record where it should
be null value it give another value.
First I give try without cross join, this is my query :

I' d like to construct a relation where entering the name of a Country
automatically enters the country code dial prefix in another field.
For that I need the above info ideally in a tab-separated text file or
something like that.

I am rather new to databases and do not have much idea about
application specific sql functionality. I have to implement a ranking
system for which the details are as follows:
Each tuple in a table has an attribute whose value is modified at