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Web Database Processing

Web Database Applications Static Report Publishing

a report is prepared from a database application and exported to HTML

DB Query Publishingan HTML form is used to submit a query and the server responds with query results

Application PublishingSupport transaction logic, provide concurrency control over database changes etc.

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Query Example

Transaction Example

ABC web connection tutorial

http://buscom.mcmaster.ca/users/yuanyuf/Tutorial_asp/homepage.html

For students using facbusad1:http:/facbusad1.mcmaster.ca/users/

ap1/yuanyuf/Tutorial_asp/homepage.html

Three-Tier Architecture

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Functions of Tiers

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Browser Connect to Web servers through

URL Request and display web pages Submit data through forms Perform client site process

Web Server functions Maintaining session states Maintaining Server Side Scripting

Environment Publishing Web pages

Maintaining Session States HTTP is a stateless protocol When database is used for transaction process,

the Web server needs to maintain the identity of the client

http://aserver/anapplication/default.asp ASP creates two objects:

Application object references an application Session object references a client

The properties of application and session objects can be referenced by script in ASP page

Maintaining Server Side Scripting Environment Communication with DB server Data caching Constraint enforcement View construction (XML or other) Security and control Application logic View materialization

Web hosting

Web browser vs. web server Personal web server allows other

people view your web page if your computer is connected to internet with an IP number.

You can copy any web page to your hard disk and view it using web browser without the need of local web server

ODBC Open Database Connectivity DBMS-independent means for

processing relational database data ORACLE SYBASE INFORMIX Microsoft SQL server IBM DB2

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Role of ODBC Standard

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ODBC Terminology Data source: the database, its

associated DBMS, operating system, and network platform

Driver manager: intermediary between the application and DBMS drivers

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ODBC Architecture

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Conformance Levels ODBC conformance level

concerned through driver’s application program interface (API) Core, level 1, level 2

SQL conformance level Minimum SQL Grammar Core SQL Grammar Extended SQL Grammar

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ODBC Data Source Name A data source is a ODBC data structure

that identifies a database and the DBMS that processes it.

File data source: a file shared among database users

System data source: local to a single computer

User data source: only available to the user who created it

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Role of OLE DB

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OLE DB Object Linking and Embedding Database; OLE DB breaks the features and functions

of a DBMS up into objects Provides an object-oriented interface to

data of almost any type and used as an interface to ODBC and non-relational data

With OLE DB, a DBMS vendor can implement portions of their product

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Object Terminology Abstraction: a generalization of something,

e.g. rowset is abstraction of recordset Method: actions that an object can perform,

e.g. Open, MoveFirst, Move Next, Close Property: a characteristic of an object, e.g.

AllowEdit, RecordsetType of a recordset Collection: object that contains a group of

other objects, e.g. a recordset is a collection of field objects

Recordset.Fields.Count is a number of fields of a recordset

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ADO Active Data Objects; an interface that enables

programmers in almost any language (including scripting) to access OLE DB functionality

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Role of ADO

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ADO Object Model

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ADO Object Model Connection object RecordSet object Fields Collection Errors Collection Command object

Web-to-Database Connection with Active Server Pages (ASP) A scripting environment that you can use

to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications

The Web Server find the file and then processes all the ASP code between <% ... %> before handing back the page.

Allows for easy querying and updating of a database from a Web page

http://www.learnasp.com http://www.asp101.com/samples/index.asp

A Simple Example of ASP<html><head> <TITLE>hi.asp</TITLE> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Today is <%=now%> and all is well<br> <%if hour(now())<12 THEN%> Good Morning <%ELSE%> Good Day! <%END IF%> </body></html>

Use ASP to access database Create a data base on the server Create DSN (Data Source Name) using

ODBC (Open Data Base Connectivity) In a HTML form, use action to invoke an

ASP page In ASP page, connect to the database

through DSN, using the values from the form to make a SQL query

Execute SQL and generate a result HTML page

http://www.asp101.com/samples/index.asp

http://www.asp101.com/samples/index.asp

WYSIWYG Web Database Toolhttp://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/WebDB/?tag=st.bl.3880.pro_h.bl_WebDB

The shift from code-based approach to tools with graphical interfaces.

All of the top-end WYSIWYG HTML editors have added database connectivity to some degree.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

a professional HTML editor for designing, coding, and developing websites, web pages, and web applications.

Dreamweaver helps you to build dynamic database-backed web applications using server languages such as ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), JSP, and PHP.

ASP vs. PHP ASP (Active Sever Pages) is a Microsoft

product, and is usually used in conjunction with the IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft services. Uses Microsoft Visual Basic.

PHP (Hypertext Pre Processor) is a open source program that runs on UNIX and Linux servers. Uses C++ and MySQL (free)