1. From RR how can I access a database and display the contents of its tables/fields in RR ?
If your needs require a relational database supporting SQL syntax, then please trash this message; however, if you don't need "Q", SDB will do.
SDB is an open-source, native-Transcript, hierarchical client/server available at <http://www.oenolog.net/ftp/serendipity_downloader.htm>.
In the first RAD version, which I am fine tuning for release later this week, the steps involved are:
A. Create a front-end card with title fields with sharedText = true and data fields with sharedText = false. (The RAD version will ship with a stack of front-end templates you an use, customize, and/or add to.)
B. Create the database
C. Run SDB Tools' Record Type From Card menuItem, which creates the data dictionary record type definition & installs SDB handlers in the front-end stack.
2. From RR how can I access a remote data base and . . . ?
A. Set up TCP/IP communications
B. Build & install an SDB Server standalone
C. Change the communications mode of the front-end you created above from "direct connection" [single user] to "TCP/IP" and enter the server's IP address & port.
3. How can I export processed data in a more useful format than a tab-delimited text document?
A. Use SDB Tools or SDB Utilities to open the data base directly.
B. Run the Export Record menuItem in the db's Edit menu
C. Select the record type & key range, type the numeric value of the delimiter of your choice, and send mouseUp to the "Proceed" [Thumbs Up"] button. [Your format can then be described in the Import Record dialog; so files exported from one database can be imported into another.]
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Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
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