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Power Builder Interview Question and Answers:

11.     What is the Data Window Child?
      A Drop Down Data Window behaves a child of the Data Window Object that contains it.

12.     What do you mean about Data Window?
      A data window object is an object that you use to retrieve, present and manipulate data from a relational database or other data source(Such as EXCEL worksheet or DBASE file).
Retrieves data from a database and present it to the user in a wide variety of styles.
We can use data window objects in client/server, web-bsed and mult-itier applications.
The report we can create in Infomaker and the Data window objects. We can create in power builder and the same objects.

13.     What is the purpose of the PB.INI files?
      INI stands for “initialization”. They are primarily intended to be a standard format that applications can make use of to hold info from one run to the next. Rather than hard-coding the values of transaction properties in scripts, which is too inflexible for most real-world applications, you’ll want your scripts to read some or all of them from an .INI file. You could use PB.INI .INIs are always in the same format:
[Database]
DBMS = Sybase
Database = Video Store DB
User Id =
DB Password =
Log Password =
Server Name =
Log Id=
Lock =
DBParm=ConnectString=‘DSN=VideoStore DB;UID=dba’

14.     How do you manipulate .INI file through PowerBuilder functions?
      Set Profile String()
ProfileString()
ProfileInt()

15.     Explain types of presentation styles available in Datawindow?     
    Composite
    Crosstab
    Freeform
    Graph
    Grid
    Group
    Label
    N-up
    OLE-2.0
    Richtext
    Tabular