Abstract: Methods for using SQL statements to access an application-server-managed database are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user sends, either directly or indirectly (i.e., remotely) a SQL statement from an ODBC application or server, respectively, to an application server that preprocesses SQL statements for accessing data from a centralized database. The application server may have a SQL endpoint, and access to the SQL endpoint may be determined by a user's logon credentials, a user's presentation of a SAML token, or a user's presentation of a valid certificate. The application server may then parse the SQL statement and determine the user's authorization to access certain objects in the centralized database based on a SQL handler design-time configuration. A result from the statement may be sent back to the user either directly or indirectly and exposed.

Abstract: A device for intercepting and collecting fats and/or moisture dispersed in an ascending gaseous carrier has a set of trough-shaped collecting elements which alternate with and whose marginal portions are overlapped by inverted trough-shaped intercepting elements. The lowermost sections of the collecting elements form part of shallow receptacles for collected fats and/or moisture, and such receptacles extend between end walls which are of one piece with the ends of main portions of the collecting elements. Such collecting elements can be produced by deep drawing suitably configurated blanks of sheet metal. The end walls and the marginal portions of the collecting elements have projections extending through slots in plate-like holders for the collecting elements.