Hoping for a little help with registering and hosting questions.

i was hoping i could get some information from some of you
that have personal experience with registering your site and
picking a hosting provider.
im wondering what the difference is between say....Dot5
hosting at 5.00 a month and .. network solutions at 29.99 a month?
my local provider here in sacramento wants 30 a month as
well......299.oo a yr.
should I go with a local provider? or go with ... say GoDaddy
or some other company?
also, registering. Im about to register my site name.
however, some companies include it in the "packages" they offer.
should I register it myself or let the hosting company I choose do
it?
sorry for the newb questions....but I cant find any good info
on this and I was hoping maybe some of you that have already done
this to chime in.
thanks in advance.

If you want almost all of the below features for about $9.00
a month go to
Gate.com and pick your package. I use them for several web
sites and have
never been dissatisfied with their services or features.
They will register your domain and I've done it both ways,
but have never
had problems with them but it does make a lot of sense to
register it
yourself and keep full ownership....
"Sonjay" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:C19368C5.A15FD%[email protected]...
> There's probably not a dime's worth of difference
between the Dot5 hosting
> and the NetSol hosting, but I wouldn't recommend either
of those companies
> for hosting.
>
> $30/month seems high unless you have very specific needs
-- there's plenty
> of good hosting around for $8 or $10 a month. The thing
you need to do is
> decide what your requirements are: php? asp? MySQL?
Access? dot.net?
> E-mail?
> Telnet or SSH access? Do you need/want a control panel
that makes it easy
> for you set up your own e-mail accounts, password
protect directories, and
> that sort of thing, or will basic FTP access be all you
need? Do you want
> a
> statistics package included with your hosting? Do you
need to run more
> than
> one domain under the same account? If all of the above
makes you shake
> your
> head and say "I don't need any of that," then you can
probably manage just
> fine with any of the $5-$10 month basic packages, with a
reputable host.
>
> Whatever you do, register your domain separately from
your hosting, and
> only
> use an ICANN-accredited registrar, none of those
resellers that tend to
> disappear and/or register people's domains in their own
name. I have
> nothing
> good to say about NetSol as a registrar, going back to
the years when they
> were the only game in town, and I will never use them
again, but any other
> ICANN-accredited registrar should do you just fine.
>
> --
> Sonjay
>
> On 11/29/06 3:51 PM, "Progressive_Learning" wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> i was hoping i could get some information from some
of you that have
>> personal
>> experience with registering your site and picking a
hosting provider.
>>
>> im wondering what the difference is between
say....Dot5 hosting at 5.00 a
>> month and .. network solutions at 29.99 a month?
>>
>> my local provider here in sacramento wants 30 a
month as well......299.oo
>> a
>> yr.
>>
>> should I go with a local provider? or go with ...
say GoDaddy or some
>> other
>> company?
>>
>> also, registering. Im about to register my site
name. however, some
>> companies include it in the "packages" they offer.
should I register it
>> myself
>> or let the hosting company I choose do it?
>>
>> sorry for the newb questions....but I cant find any
good info on this and
>> I
>> was hoping maybe some of you that have already done
this to chime in.
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>>
>
>

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Now, I need to be able to do the obvious things... save to and load from file, generate tables and views, and edit values. The quesiton of editting values raises the questions I identified above as (1) and (2). Say I want to pull up a reading, quiz the user on it, and update its statistics based on whether the user got it right or wrong. I could do all this through the KanjiEntry object with a setter method that takes a zillion arguments like:
theKanjiEntry.setStatistic(
"on",   // which set of readings
2,      // which element in that array or Vector
"score", // which statistic
98);      // the valueOr I could pass a clone of the Reading object out, work with that, then tell the KanjiEntry to replace the original with my modified clone.
My instincts balk at the first approach, and a little at the second. Doesn't it make more sense to work with a reference to the Reading object? Or is that bad encapsulation?
A second point. When running flash cards, I do not care about the subtlties of the structure, like whether a reading is an on or a kun (although this is important when browsing a table representing the entire structure). All I really care about is kanij/reading pairings. And I should be able to quickly poll the Reading objects to see which ones need quizzing the most, based on their statistics. I was thinking of making a nice neat Hashtable with the keys being the kanji characters in Strings (not the KanjiEntry objects) and the values being the Reading objects. The result would be two indeces to the Reading objects... the basic structure and my ad hoc hashtable for runninq quizzes. Then I would just make sure that they stay in sync in terms of the higher level structure (like if a whole new KanjiEntry got added). Is this bad form, or even downright dangerous?
Apart from good form, the other consideration bouncing around in my head is that if I get all crazy with deep cloning and filling the bottom level guys with instance methods then this puppy is going to get bloated or lag when there are several thousand kanji in memory at once.
Any help would be appreciated.
Drake

Usually by better design. Move methods that use the
getters inside the class that actually has the data....
As a basic rule of thumb:
The one who has the data is the one using it. If
another class needs that data, wonder what for and
consider moving that operation away from that class.
Or move from pull to push: instead of A getting
something from B, have B give it to A as a method
call argument.Thanks for the response. I think I see what you are saying.. in my case it is something like this.
Solution 1 (disfavored):
public class kanjiDrill{ // a chunk of Swing GUI or something
     public void runDrill(Vector kanjiEntries){
          KanjiEntry currentKanjiEntry = kanjiEntries.elementAt(0); // except really I will pick one randomly
          char theKanji = currentKanjiEntry.getKanji();
          String theReading = currentKanjiEntry.getReading();
          // build and show a flashcard based on theKanji and theReading
          // use a setter to change currentKanji's data based on whether the user answers correctly;
}Solution 2 (favored):
public class kanjiDrill{ // a chunk of Swing GUI or something
     public void runDrill(Vector kanjiEntries){
          KanjiEntry currentKanjiEntry = kanjiEntries.elementAt(0); // except really I will pick one randomly
          currentKanji.buildAndShowFlashcard(); // method includes updating stats
}I can definitely see the advantages to this, but two potential reasons to think hard about it occur to me right away. First, if this process is carried out to a sufficient extreme the objects that hold my data end up sucking in all the functionality of my program and my objects stop resembling natural concepts.
In your shopping example, say you want to generate price tags for the items. The price tags can be generated with ONLY the raw price, because we do not want the VAT on them. They are simple GIF graphics that have the price printed on a an irregular polygon. Should all that graphics generating code really go into the item objects, or should we just get the price out of the object with a simple getter method and then make the tags?
My second concern is that the more instance methods I put into my bottom level data objects the bigger they get, and I intend to have thousands of these things in memory. Is there a balance to strike at some point?
It's not really a setter. Outsiders are not setting
the items price - it's rather updating its own price
given an argument. This is exactly how it should be,
see my above point. A breach of encapsulation would
be: another object gets the item price, re-calculates
it using a date it knows, and sets the price again.
You can see yourself that pushing the date into the
item's method is much beter than breaching
encapsulation and getting and setting the price.So the point is not "don't allow access to the members" (which after all you are still doing, albeit less directly) so much as "make sure that any functionality implicated in working with the members is handled within the object," right? Take your shopping example. Say we live in a country where there is no VAT and the app will never be used internationally. Then we would resort to a simple setter/getter scheme, right? Or is the answer that if the object really is pure data are almost so, then it should be turned into a standard java.util collection instead of a custom class?
Thanks for the help.
Drake

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Hi I am using oracle 10g. Trying to aggregate duplicate count records. I have so far:
SELECT 'ST' LEDGER,
CASE
WHEN c.Category = 'E' THEN 'Headcount Exempt'
ELSE 'Headcount Non-Exempt'
END
ACCOUNTS,
CASE WHEN a.COMPANY = 'ZEE' THEN 'OH' ELSE 'NA' END MARKET,
'MARCH_12' AS PERIOD,
COUNT (a.empl_id) head_count
FROM essbase.employee_pubinfo a
LEFT OUTER JOIN MMS_DIST_COPY b
ON a.cost_ctr = TRIM (b.bu)
INNER JOIN MMS_GL_PAY_GROUPS c
ON a.pay_group = c.group_code
WHERE a.employee_status IN ('A', 'L', 'P', 'S')
AND FISCAL_YEAR = '2012'
AND FISCAL_MONTH = 'MARCH'
GROUP BY a.company,
b.district,
a.cost_ctr,
c.category,
a.fiscal_month,
a.fiscal_year;
which gives me same rows with different head_counts. I am trying to combine the same rows as a total (one record). Do I use a subquery?

Hi,
Whenever you have a problem, please post a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements, relevant columns only) from all tables involved.
Also post the results you want from that data, and an explanation of how you get those results from that data, with specific examples.
user610131 wrote:
... which gives me same rows with different head_counts.If they have different head_counts, then the rows are not the same.
I am trying to combine the same rows as a total (one record). Do I use a subquery?Maybe. It's more likely that you need a different GROUP BY clause, since the GROUP BY clause determines how many rows of output there will be. I'll be able to say more after you post the sample data, results, and explanation.
You may want both a sub-query and a different GROUP BY clause. For example:
WITH    got_group_by_columns     AS
     SELECT a.empl_id
     ,     CASE
                    WHEN c.category = 'E'
              THEN 'Headcount Exempt'
                    ELSE 'Headcount Non-Exempt'
            END          AS accounts
     ,      CASE
                    WHEN a.company = 'ZEE'
                    THEN 'OH'
                    ELSE 'NA'
            END          AS market
     FROM              essbase.employee_pubinfo a
     LEFT OUTER JOIN mms_dist_copy             b ON   a.cost_ctr     = TRIM (b.bu)
     INNER JOIN       mms_gl_pay_groups        c ON   a.pay_group      = c.group_code
     WHERE     a.employee_status     IN ('A', 'L', 'P', 'S')
     AND        fiscal_year           = '2012'
     AND        fiscal_month          = 'MARCH'
SELECT    'ST'               AS ledger
,       accounts
,       market
,       'MARCH_12'          AS period
,       COUNT (empl_id)      AS head_count
FROM       got_group_by_columns
GROUP BY accounts
,            market
;But that's just a wild guess.
You said you wanted "Help with count and sum". I see the COUNT, but what do you want with SUM? No doubt this will be clearer after you post the sample data and results.
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Apr 4, 2012 5:31 PM

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Hi Experts,
I need help with writing and reading data from a database table field which has a type of "LCHR". I have given an example of the original code but don't know what to change it to in order to fix it and still read in the original data that's stored in the LCHR field.
Basically we have two Function modules, one that saves list data to a database table and one that reads in this data. Both Function modules have an identicle table which has an array of fields from type INT4, CHAR, and type P. The INT4 field is the first one.
Incidentally this worked in the 4.7 non-unicode system but is now dumping in the new ECC6 Unicode system.
Thanks in advance,
C
SAVING THE LIST DATA TO DB
DATA: L_WA(800).
LOOP AT T_TAB into L_WA.
ZDBTAB-DATALEN = STRLEN( L_WA ).
MOVE: L_WA to ZDBTAB-RAWDATA.
ZDBTAB-LINENUM = SY-TABIX.
INSERT ZDBTAB.
READING THE DATA FROM DB
DATA: BEGIN OF T_DATA,
             SEQNR type ZDBTAB-LINENUM,
             DATA type ZDBTAB-RAWDATA,
           END OF T_TAB.
Select the data.
SELECT linenum rawdata from ZDBTAB into table T_DATA
     WHERE repid = w_repname
     AND rundate = w_rundate
     ORDER BY linenum.
Populate calling Internal Table.
LOOP AT T-DATA.
APPEND T_DATA to T_TAB.
ENDLOOP.

Hi Anuj,
The unicode flag is active.
When I run our report and then to try and save the list data a dump is happening at the following point
LOOP AT T_TAB into L_WA.
As I say, T_TAB consists of different fields and field types whereas L_WA is CHAR 800. The dump mentions UC_OBJECTS_NOT_CONVERTIBLE
When I try to load a saved list the dump is happening at the following point
APPEND T_DATA-RAWDATA to T_TAB.
T_DATA-RAWDATA is type LCHR and T_TAB consists of different fields and field types.
In both examples the dumps mention UC_OBJECTS_NOT_CONVERTIBLE
Regards
C

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