Re: any datatype which can handle GB's of Data.

From:
Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:16:31 -0400
Message-ID:
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Garg wrote:

thanks for reply,

What i really need to do is that that i have to take the data from
database and then send it to one JSP page where javascript will handle
that data to show to the user.
the reading from database and sending to jsp or gui is been done ny
serlvet.

so what i am doing is like i am reading the data from database one by
one record and then creating a table and puting that in the
StringBuffer. but as data can be of any size. String buffer will not
be able to handle that. so in this case what should i do.


Don't.

Separate String (or StringBuilder or other type such as java.sql.Date) for
each column in each row (not record). Don't show all gazillion rows (not
records) at once - use some paging.

The datatype to hold everything at once is the "RDBMS" type. Everything else
should only hold a view into that. Certainly even if your server could suck
the whole data store into memory at once, there's no way someone's browser can.

--
Lew

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