[ALL] let's think about Query Language for 2.0

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/17/03 12:11 AM, Keith DeLong at delong at redcort.com wrote:

Hi Keith,

>>> One last thing that would be incredibly powerful -- what if Result could be
>>> set as a standard RB array, collection or dictionary. The power to return a
>>> data query directly into these objects (that are supported and expanded by
>>> RS) would be awesome.
>> 
>> Well, similar functionality we have for V4MD and V4WS.
>> 
>> In this products, developer can ask Valentina put few records of Cursor into
>> e.g. property list.
>> It seems exists way ask result as list without cursor at all.
>> 
>> Why you think this will be "powerful" feature?
> 
> I often put a vCursor into an RB object to separate the dataset the result
> from the database. I may populate an array, a collection, dictionary or
> listbox. I've often wished the result went directly into the object for
> speed purposes.  

I agree, that creation of array inside of V4RB plugin will be faster,
At least because no calls to V4RB from your code now.

> As I think about it -- with a separate V4RB client from server -- not
> display result sets can be left in a vCursor and not worry about the
> database. Especially if we can designate cursors as read only or read/write.
> 
> This refutes part of my thinking...



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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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