On 9/2/08 6:04 AM, "Kay C Lan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Kay,
> On Feb 7, 2008 2:02 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> In general case Databases (w.g. SqlLite or Valentina) will not allow you >> do >> this on CD. You will get exception/error on the first attempt to do >> INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE ... CREATE/ALTER TABLE >> > > But what about a case where ALL you want to do is SELECT. Then no problems, and hundreds, usually Director Valentina developers, do this. They develop CD/DVD based projects -- for education, presentations, catalogs, games, ... --------- > Lets say you have a 'Tour of the Museum of Fine Art', a DB with a couple of > entries for title,artist,year,description,style,image (image being a high > resolution .jpg). Because of the images the whole lot comes to a couple of > GBs so you put it on a DVD. The intention is only to 'view'. Is it possible > to save the User the need to clog their HD by leaving the DB on DVD. Yes of course possible, why not? :-) Only difference here is that APPLICATION will work with TWO or MORE dbs: first db (read only) on DVD, second on the HDD. Also we have meet even more complex ideas, when play a third db which is online under Valentina Server. > What about a Hybrid. > > If the above is possible, then what about an approach where your Rev front > end is stored on the Users HD and creates a small DB. The small DB has two > entries, notes and a pointer to the read only DVD DB. In this way a user > could enter their own notes about each painting in the museum, these notes > would be written to the small DB and be remembered, and modifiable as > required. > > NOTE. I appreciate that this is not the 'normal/fastest' way you'd handle > this in a DB. I'm simply interested in whether this will work. -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin VP Engineering and New Technology Paradigma Software, Inc Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information http://www.paradigmasoft.com [I feel the need: the need for speed] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
