A few Axiant questions...

[Michel Adam]

I am working on reactivating a long delayed project, and would like to get
some feedback/info from list members who have used the product.

- Anyone used the latest version of Axiant with Oracle 10g Xpress? If so,
  any problems?

- How well does it handle mixed databases use (Oracle, SQL Server 2000)
  in the same application?

- When dealing with BLOB objects, is there anything like 'drag-and-drop'
  functionality available? I am looking for a similar facility as is
  found in Outlook, when one can attach a picture or a word document
  to a message merely by dragging it to the message being composed.
  In this particular case, it would be saving scanned documents (PDF),
  but also copying webpages showing the result of a search, into a BLOB.
  Is this feasable without first saving the web page to disk and then
  importing it into a BLOB? The same would go for saving messages from
  Outlook, into a BLOB.

- Has anyone done something like having a batch process (QTP?) run at
  specific interval, and have that process send email notification to
  one or more users, based on results retreived from a database? I am
  thinking here about a notification of overdue actions (trouble ticket
  type of system...)

- How are the controls facility when displaying a picture from a BLOB?
  If the image is larger than the frame of the BLOB, are there any
  scroll bar cursor, is the image shunk to fit (sort of a tumbnail
  thing)?

- How well can MPEG and MP3/Wav files be retreived/displayed/listened to
  when dealing with BLOB?

- Any way of displaying a 'shrunk' image when a PDF document is being
  displayed from a BLOB?


I am sure I will have more questions later, but any light shed on this
would go a long way in helping select Axiant for that project.

Thanks

Michel Adam
Business Analyst,
Children & Family Services,
Dept. of Health & Social Services
Government of the Northwest-Territories
(867) 920-6131
Michel_Adam at gov.nt.ca