Bill
Fortney will provide an overview of an Interbase application
which he wrote using the IBX components.
He
will discuss how to setup and use several of the specific
components and some of the issues surrounding them,
including transaction management. He will also discuss
specific use of some of Interbase's syntax including joins,
stored procedures, and triggers.
The
application's data source was a web page which was
frequently updated over the course of several days. While
the page showed the latest view, Bill wanted to keep the
intermediate views as well. His process for capturing and
storing the data involved two steps. First download the web
page and store the source (HTML) in a blob field which can
be retrieved and displayed by the application.
Then, parse the html and store the data in regular
SQL tables. The parsing process uses Microsoft's Document
Object Model (DOM) to "scrape" the data off of the
web page and store it in database tables.
Be
sure to attend this meeting. There is something for
everyone. Who knows, you might even learn a little about
"The Last Great Race".
See
you there!
