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Why Is My Recordset Nil?
This one comes up on the RB Forums a lot. The post generally goes something like this: “I have a database and everything works fine until here <insert code snippet> and I get a Nil Object...
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Real Studio Database Days
If you’d like to learn more about Real Studio and how it integrates with your favorite database there is an event coming up that might be of interest to you. MonkeyBread Software is hosting the Real...
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See You in Frankfurt
Join me at the Real Studio Database Days training in Frankfurt, Germany on November 3rd and 4th. I am looking forward to talking to the group. Speakers include: Stéphane Pinel from Real Software...
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Recordset.idxField vs Recordset.Field
Yesterday I was complaining about my OPC project and I’ve added a few more bullet points in the comments section. This morning I added a comment about how the idiot developer used...
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Database Programmers: Do Yourself a Favor
[NOTE: ] As Jeremy points out in the notes below, this example really is BAD for web apps because of SQL Injection attacks. You should start looking at PreparedStatements if you have not done so...
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ActiveRecord and ARGen Updates
We’ve been consistently updating ActiveRecord for our consulting and internal projects. We find ActiveRecord to be a wonderfully way to get the Xojo IDE to do more work for you. It reduces...
View ArticleDebugging Your Xojo Applications
Your customers and clients expect your Xojo applications to be as bug free as possible. What mechanisms do you have in place to handle an error and report it? Bugs occur – that’s a fact of life – and...
View ArticleRecordset’s are Funny Things
We have a new developer working at BKeeney Software and he’s in the learning phase of Xojo. Not only is he new to Xojo but he doesn’t have a ton of experience doing software development in general. As...
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Xojo Cloud Database Support
Last week Xojo announced new features for Xojo Cloud. They now support MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers in addition to SQLite that they have supported since day one. One of the interesting...
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Automating Xojo Database Development with ARGen
Database applications are relatively easy with Xojo. The native Database, DatabaseRecord, and Recordset classes make it easy to connect, add, edit, and delete data in your console, desktop, and web...
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