Monday 7 January 2008

Create Virtual Tables Vol.2

Every once in a while a question similar to this one will appear in the forum. The problem is always the same: "how to create a lot of data based on very few records?". Today, one new variation of a puzzle followed. It took me arround half an hour in order to create a demo page, giving an idea on how to solve the problem. Of course, you need much more for a working version of an application.





The example in my demo application


http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:158


is related to one of the examples from the past


http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:83


which I already blogged about here


http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/2007/05/create-pseudo-tables.html


Still, this requirement is somewhat new and different. It is worth of looking into it.




2 comments:

Patrick Wolf said...

Hi Denes,

looks like that the links not have a actual value in the href. -> Link doesn't work.

BTW, you should change the language of you blog to English, so that the automatic generated text (for example 0 Kommentare) is in English. Makes it easier for non German speaking people :-)

Patrick

Andy said...

Dominic has a tool which generates data pretty well too:

http://www.dominicgiles.com/datagenerator.html

Not sure if it can be used in this case but it might be worthwhile looking into perhaps?