Open-Source Components for Informix Dynamic Server 9.X with Cdrom

From the Publisher: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 INCLUDEDTheaccompanying 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.