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~Chloe Frokrosonnivu
May 23, 2012, 5:33 AM
15 Posts

Create databases & database tables

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 Hi,
as most of you know, im very much beginner for XPages, Now i want to know how can we maintain our own database and how to create databases, tables to keep track of records. can we create databases via Mysql or sql sever, and can we import them to our  XPages. because i'm implementing a system, which i have to keep track of records. is there any method to do that same task without using, above mentioned methodologies? Please reply me as soon as you can.
 
Thanks! 
~Ben Asaponeskioden
May 23, 2012, 8:33 AM
126 Posts
Re: Create databases & database tables
XPages has the ability to use domino documents / views / forms. The ExtLib on openNTF has support for sql but standrad XPages uses domino documents to store data and javascript / java API's to extract these documents / data inside them.
 
If your a complete beginner you might consider reading the mastering XPages book: http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0132486318
 
a good way to learn this also is to use the templates that come standard with XPages and the 2 re modelled ones (discussion / teamroom) that come with the ExtLib on openNTF. Templates are good starting points as they are fully functional applications that can be deployed so you can see them working while trying to understand the language / tools
~Isaac Fezboosiakoi
May 23, 2012, 12:59 PM
586 Posts
Re: Create databases & database tables
 XPages is an extremely powerful development environment.  As such certain things can get rather complicated and there is a learning curve to XPages.
 
If you're are just starting out with XPages and want to work with NON-Notes Data, you might want to step back and think about it first.  XPages can certainly do this, but that sounds to me to be a big jump in the water which typically I would recommend starting small and just "get your feet wet" at first. 
 
I've seen a many people struggle because they wanted to dive into advanced things first without a good understanding of the basics. 
 
So I just suggest that you be careful. 

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