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I have a question regarding this topic.Like for Client Server Applications

1) is it necessary to load database directly into the Application.

Suppose if I have a DB in the back end and My application has to connect to that DB and display the results on the View for this do I need to Add DB into the Application directly.

2) can we access any DB or a File on the Remote server and show the required results.( with out adding that particular DB or A File into the application directly). How can we do this.

I saw a similar question in stackoverflow one answer was to use a PList, I am new to this.I am browsing the net but not able to get clear results. I lost many of my interviews because of this question.

Thanks,

Answer 1

1) is it necessary to load database
directly into the Application.

Suppose if I have a DB in the back end
and My application has to connect to
that DB and display the results on the
View for this do I need to Add DB into
the Application directly.

I’m not sure I understand this question. No, you don’t need to load a database directly into a client in a client-server architecture. Normally, when I think of a design where a server has a database, I imagine there’s some kind of way for the client to query the server for information. Perhaps it’s making HTTP requests, which the server parses into a query, runs the query, and then returns the results (perhaps in XML form?).

2) can we access any DB or a File on
the Remote server and show the
required results.( with out adding
that particular DB or A File into the
application directly). How can we do
this.

Are you asking if it’s possible, in general, to access a server database from a client? Yes, of course. (See above, re: HTTP Requests).

Any arbitrary file? That depends on how the server is set up. Again, HTTP is one protocol works that way; if you send an HTTP query like “GET someimage.png HTTP/1.0”, the server could just be grabbing the whole file someimage.png and sending it back in the response. (Technically, it’s not necessarily snarfing a whole file — it could be creating that PNG dynamically since there’s nothing in the HTTP protocol that says it must be sending an existing file — but that’s outside the scope of your question.)

I lost many of my interviews because
of this question.

Not to sound too snarky, but interviews are often won and lost not because you don’t know the answer, but when you can’t communicate effectively. You haven’t phrased your question(s) here particularly well.