At 01:30 PM 3/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Maybe I misunderstand your problem, but can't you just use Oracle's ROWID
>operator?
>
This is a common misconception. ROWID is the physical address of a row on
disk. It has elements in it like data object number, block, row, file. The
row element looks like it might be useful but it refers to the row within a
block on disk.
You might be thinking of the ROWNUM pseudocolumn. When a query is submitted
to Oracle every returned row is assigned a number. You can access this
number with the ROWNUM pseudocolumn. This sounds great but the number is
assigned to the row before the rows are sorted for the order by clause.
This is not very useful.
Back to servlet relevance. Because of the stateless nature of the web this
is especially problematic. What do you save across sessions? Do you somehow
hang on to a connection between sessions so that the cursor isn't closed? I
have tried many possibilities. The ConText cartridge is the best that I
have found.
-Eric
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