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Web Programming

Notes  The DataList and DataCombo controls are the ADO/OLE DB equivalents of DBList and
DBCombo controls.
 The DataGrid is the successor to DBGrid.

 The Chart control is now data bound.
 A new version of the FlexGrid control, called the Hierarchical FlexGrid, supports the
hierarchical abilities of the Data Environment.
 The new DataRepeater control functions as a scrolling container of data bound user controls
where each control views a single record.
The Data Report is a new ActiveX designer that creates reports from any data source, including
the Data Environment. With the Data Report designer, formatted reports can be viewed online,
printed, or exported to text or HTML pages.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
14. The new ADO Data control is similar to the intrinsic data control and ………………………….
15. The ability to dynamically bind a data source to a data consumer is now possible in
………………………….

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Caselet Let’s Talk Tech

WITH marauding hordes, Genghis Khan terrorised whole populations. His motto: “It’s
not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.” But he is long dead. Yet his philosophy
lives on in the software world, writes Karen Southwick in Everyone Else Must Fail, from
Crown Business (www.crownbusiness.com). She provides “the unvarnished truth about
Oracle and Larry Ellison”. The blurb speaks of how, inside Oracle, “Ellison has time and
again systematically purged key operating, sales, and marketing people who got too
powerful for his comfort.” What is his style? “Freewheeling version of capitalism, the
kind practised by the nineteenth century robber barons who ran their companies as private
fiefdoms.” The book raises a question: “Whether Oracle’s products and the reliance placed
in them by so many are too important to be subject to the whims of one man.” Is there a
warning “about an ingenious man’s tendency to be his own company’s worst enemy”?
The introduction notes how he has “come a long way from the college dropout who
started at the bottom rung financially and socially.” He is “by turns brilliant and intolerant,
inspiring and chilling, energetic and disinterested.” Ellison is “one of the most intriguing,
dominant, and misguided leaders of a major twenty-first-century corporation.” Don’t
forget that more than half of the Fortune 100 cited Oracle as the preferred database vendor,
or that Ellison owns nearly one-fourth of Oracle’s stock. He is “the ultimate narcissist,” as
one business psychologist said. “Ellison may be the last of his kind, but he is unforgettable.”
He complains “about the way the press tears down heroes, comparing the media to lions
at the ancient Roman Colosseum.” Yet he takes gleeful joy “in creating controversies.”
The author analyses: “Because of his childhood, Ellison feels vulnerable whenever he feels
himself growing dependent on someone else. He can’t stand the thought of abandonment,
so he abandons other people before they can do it to him.”

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