Publisher's Synopsis
The fast, easy way to leverage IDS 9.x's full object-relational power!*Supercharge your next IDS-9.x application!*"Bladelets": easy DataBlade building blocks for powerful object-relational solutions*Covers Vtables, temporal data management, hierarchical problems, text manipulation, BLOBs, and much more*CD-ROM: Open source bladelet code for solving a wide range of business problemsObject-relational databases offer immense power -- but many database professionals have failed to use it, because doing so required them to write their own DataBlade extensions. This book presents a breakthrough solution: bladelets. Created by a team of Informix' leading DataBlade experts, bladelets serve as building blocks, bringing Informix Dynamic Server 9.x ORDBMS power to bear on a wide range of business problems, while requiring far less original programming. All ten bladelets are covered in detail, with open source code provided on CD-ROM. Whether you use them "as is, " or as the model for your own DataBlades, they can dramatically improve the performance, value, and time-to-market of your very next database application.;Coverage includes: *Solving hierarchical problems*Extending SQL to support temporal data management *Accessing external files through SQL*Using SQL as a data type*Overcoming database portability problems*Manipulating text with regular expressions*Removing LVARCHAR size limits*Using BLOBs more effectively*Managing multiple versions of your data with virtual tables, and much moreCD-ROM INCLUDEDThe accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book's code examples -- plus a toolbox of open-source DataBlades, complete with source code, designed to quickly solve a wide range of business problems.
