In a vb .net winforms app I am trying out something for "wide and shallow" children of a record. I use strongly typed business objects ( Strataframe ). My plan is to have a number of "child tables"...

Since web applications are mostly stateless, and linear (request comes in, response goes out), is change-tracking really necessary? E.g. if I have an action that updates a Product instance I know at ...

I am in the process of developing a desktop application that needs a database. The application is currently targeted to SQL Express 2005 and works wonderfully. However, I m not crazy about having ...

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How would I represent the following in a CakePHP model? Product ======= product_id .... Cart ==== cart_id .... Carts_Products ============== cart_id product_id quantity

I am trying to join two tables that reside in two different databases. Every time, I try to join I get the following error: An association from the table xxx refers to an unmapped class. If the ...

How are models and DAOs supposed to interact? I m in the process of putting together a simple login module and I m unsure where to put the "business logic." If I put the logic with the data in the ...

I m trying to migrate one of my PHP projects to Doctrine. I ve never used it before so there are a few things I don t understand. In my current code, I have a class similar to this: class ...