Exam 11: Interacting With Databases Through the Web

What are some of the features provided by Web application servers?

____________________ are objects that manage the connection with a data source and provide data to the consumers.

The XML metalanguage allows the definition of new ____, such as <ProdPrice>, to describe the data elements used in an XML document.

A(n) ____________________ is a unique name by which the data source will be known to ODBC, and therefore, to applications.

The label "stateless system" indicates that, at any given time, a Web server knows the status of the clients communicating with it.

The Web has helped create a new information dissemination standard.

____ is embedded inside an HTML page and is activated by triggering events such as clicking on a link.

_________________________ is a higher-level object-oriented application interface used to access remote database servers.

Regardless of the type of Web-server interface used, the Web-to-database ____________________ program must be able to connect with the database.

____ is a scripting language that allows Web authors to design interactive sites.

When an end user uses a Web browser to dynamically query a database, the client browser actually requests a Web page.

The CGI is a newer Web-server interface standard that is much more efficient and faster than a dynamic link library (DLL).

In the ODBC architecture, a(n) ____ is in charge of managing all database connections.

A(n) ____________________ provides limited additional semantic value to XML, such as data type support or data validation rules.

What is a feature of a Web application server?

The ____ type of cloud infrastructure is built by a third-party organization to sell cloud services to the general public.

Usually, the native database connectivity interface provided by the vendor is not the only way to connect to a database; most current DBMS products support other database connectivity standards, the most common being ODBC.

Microsoft's alternative to Java is ____.

The Microsoft ____________________ framework is a component-based platform for developing distributed, heterogeneous, interoperable applications aimed at manipulating any type of data over any network under any operating system and any programming language.

The ____ object is a specialized object that creates a read-only session with the database to retrieve data sequentially (forward only) in a very fast manner.