摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus are described for a browser-based, database-access engine. Access to and modification of database data and schema are made available to a user (210) remotely through a network (212) such as the Internet. The invention is configured to parse (222) the HTML code to interpret special tags embedded in the HTML encoded web pages which could, for example be interpreted in SQL in order to communicate with an SQL compliant database, or, alternatively, the tags could be interpreted into any other database language. The invention is operable on a single machine, or a network environment such as a client/server environment, an intranet, or the internet. The present invention makes a simple browser application connected to the Internet a convenient database management tool for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval (228) of data.</p> |