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The above function returns a DataSet object. After the initial set of variables are declared, the With statement-block is executed and certain attributes within the sqlCmd SqlCommand object are set accordingly. It’s probably important to note the if-else block within the With block...
Data Providers
Data Providers are classes that for access to certain types of “data stores”. My guess is that the Database object shown in the above diagram is what the original author calls a “Data Provider”.
The .Net development libraries come “pre-built” with data providers that allow...
Recordsets
As the name implies, it represents an entire set of records which would be returned by some SQL command. The main advantage of this is the ease that it provides in manipulating records and the fields within those records within the SQL database.
Cursors
Recordsets have a...
JNDI
The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a part of the Java platform library.
Context
An interface from the javax.naming library package, which, if implemented, is essentially a Hash-Table of “contexts”. For any of the methods declared in the Context interface, the name...
Terms
Common Language Specification (CLS): defines standard rules for editing .NET languages (1).
Common Type System (CTS): a .NET standard that specifies how Type definitions and specific values of Types are represented in computer memory (2). Types that are supported by CTS are both...
I need to remind myself what this guy’s name is – “John Brown”. John Brown is the guy who got together a bunch of white anti-slavery activitists and shot up a bunch of people. It’s important to remember him for multiple reasons. For one, many would-be John Browns have tried to follow in...