Question: What are the key features of Sun’s HoloWeb? Answer: Sun Laboratory’s HoloWeb proposal uses Java as an integrated real-time 3D animation scripting language. HoloWeb is a binary file format,
Question: How can I ignore case when trying to SELECT allrecords that are LIKE a certain string variable? I have an employee’s name field in which the charactersare a combination
Question: I have a table with three columns: the firstcontains the name of the currency, thesecond contains the currency rate and the third contains the actual date when thecurrency rate
Question: [Joe Celko’s Magazine Sales Puzzle]This one was posted on the Sybase forum of CompuServe by Keith McGregor in November of 1994.One of his end users came to him with
Question: What are the key features of IBM’s VRML 2.0 proposal? Answer: Researchers at IBM Japan have proposed a reactive virtual environment. No Web references to the proposal were available
Question: What are the key features of the Moving Worlds proposal? Answer: Moving Worlds is VRML 2.0 proposal from a consortium of companies, formed by SGI, who are interested in
Question: If I make a VRML page, can it be read by any browser? Answer: The original idea behind VRML 1.0 was that any VRML scene should be viewable using
Question: [Joe Celko’s Tax Problem Puzzle]I got this one from Richard S. Romley, via CompuServe. We were engaged in a debate about Sybase’s old T-SQL versus ANSI/ISO SQL-92. I assume
Question: [Joe Celko’s Pension Plan Puzzle]Luke Tymowski, a Canadian programmer, posted an interesting problem on the MSAccess forum on CompuServe in 1994 November. He was working on a pension fund