Data Based Advisor articles from July 1990

Data Based Advisor archives from July 1990

Windows on the database world. (Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0; Editor's File.) (editorial)
July 1, 1990... Windows 3.0 will finally change the face of PC database management from character to graphics mode. Windows has matured technologically, and it presents a welcome diversion from the disappointing introduction of OS/2. Software vendors such...

Cheap help for C programmers. (Software Review) (Mix Software's C/Database Toolchest) (evaluation)
July 1, 1990... The C/Database Toolchest is a C data management library. The first thing you'll notice about the product is its price: $19.95, plus $10 for the source code and $5 for shipping ($20 for foreign shipments). The product comes on three disks...

A striking revelation. (Software Review) (Revelation Technologies Inc.'s Advanced Revelation 2.0 data base management system) (evaluation)
July 1, 1990... If there's anything about your database management system you don't like, you owe it to yourself to take a hard look at Advanced Revelation (AREV). With the release of version 2.0, AREV becomes, more than ever before, the DBMS for everyone....

Lattice, Inc.; Data Bytes.
July 1, 1990... Data Bytes Lattice, inc. has upgraded its dBC ill Plus C function library for DOS and OS/2. it now has more than 45 functions that allow C programmers to create and maintain dBASE-compatible programs. it's priced at $500; the source code...

Data Bytes.
July 1, 1990... Data Bytes mdbs, Inc. released versions of KnowledgeMan/2 and Guru for OS/2, their information management systems that include a 4GL, relational DBMS, and spreadsheet. Guru includes tools to build expert systems. Using OS/2's Presentation...

Better looking databases. (Software Review ) (Blackhawk Data Corp.'s Database Graphic Toolkit) (evaluation)
July 1, 1990... If you need to integrate your DOS databases with graphic images, Blackhawk's Database Graphic Toolkit offers an elegant solution. The package includes several compact graphic-image utilities, including one for printing high-quality images...

Artful Applications Inc.; Data Bytes. (Artful Applications Inc.'s Artful.Lib)
July 1, 1990... Data Bytes Artful Applications, inc. released a multiuser version of Artful.Lib, their library for Clipper. The interface is the same, and it's compatible with existing Artful applications. To convert existing applications to multiuser, you...

On the blinker. (Software Review) (Blink Inc.'s Blinker utility program) (evaluation)
July 1, 1990... Normally I save the conclusion of a review for the end, but in this case I'm going to make an exception. If you program in Clipper, you need Blinker, a new Clipper linker. Run right out and buy it. With that out of the way, let me explain....

May I see your license, please? (software copyright compliance; The VAR Report) (column)
July 1, 1990... Software copyright compliance isn't easy, especially since software licenses don't follow a standard. How do you know when you're breaking the law? Okay, time for your monthly workout. Walk to your computers and type DIR > PRN. When the...

Formulating your application. (R:BASE 3.0; R:BASE LAB) (column)
July 1, 1990... Creating data entry screens has just become easier in 3.0! Now You can build dynamic pop-up menus, entry/exit procedures, and your own help lines There's a lot to like about R:BASE 3.0 Forms. Microrim obviously listened to users when...

Lay of the land. (DataEase Workbench)
July 1, 1990... In the first of a new series, DataEase expert Bruce Ellison explores the makeup of this popular and powerful database management system In 1983, a friend asked me to help him build the software to run his business. Having spent years...

Update; handling change. (Hands-on SQL; structured query language; includes related article on COMMIT: making changes permanent) (column)
July 1, 1990... The last of the important data manipulation verbs we W cover, UPDATE, lets you change fields In rows This month we'll look at UPDATE, which is used to change fields in existing table rows. As usual, I'll also examine the potential damage...

Do the right thing. (dBASE IV Primer) (column)
July 1, 1990... dBASE gives you multiple ways to handle the same task Here are several efficient replacements for last month's user I. D. UDF Last month we created a User-Defined Function (UDF) that allows us to get the customer I.D. number correct....

Linker lessons, part 1. (Hardcore Clipper) (column)
July 1, 1990... The Clipper linker business Is heating up right now. Do you know which one is right for your work-and why? Linkers are hot in the Clipper market right now. In March Blink, Inc. announced Blinker, a dynamic' overlay manager for Clipper....

Magic menus. (The Fox Files) (column)
July 1, 1990... You can add menus that are hot" during a READ, simply by using a bit of ingenuity and the techniques detailed in this article Last month we covered windows as event triggers. FoxPro lets you give your users the chance to pick any window...

The dBASE report. (includes related articles on whether dBASE is dead, Ashton-Tate, and the new Ashton-Tate CEO.)
July 1, 1990... The simple database system Wayne Ratliff created in the late 1970s to organize office football pool statistics has grown into a major industry. Participants of all types and sizes occupy niches galore. Many people owe their careers to...

What is dBASE anyway?
July 1, 1990... What is dBASE Anyway? "dBASE" may be the most misunderstood word in in the PC lexicon. It is not, as many people think, shorthand for a product called database." The word DBASE, small d, capital BASE, was coined by the founders of...

War and peace; dBASE and SQL. (Ashton-Tate's dBASE and structured query language; includes related article on dBASE products married to SQL databases)
July 1, 1990... "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. Mao Tse-tung, "The...

Another point of view. (Ashton-Tate's dBASE file management system; includes related article on add-on vendors)
July 1, 1990... The fundamental problem with dBASE is that it's a pretty decent file management system for CP/M, and no matter what Ashton-Tate does to it, they're not going to change that fact. By simply trying to build a better DBASE II, they're hanging...

Going to the source: dBASE accounting. (includes related articles on choosing a development tool, and response to a splintering dBASE market)
July 1, 1990... Off-the-shelf accounting packages don't always fit a company's accounting style. The companies that purchase canned systems often discover that they have to change their accounting practices to match the software. These changes can range from...

Why I left dBASE; why I prefer dBASE. (includes related articles on dBASE impact on non-DOS platforms, dBASE competition, dBASE language standard, and dBASE market)
July 1, 1990... Why I left dBASE I worked with DBASE II originally, went to III and Ill PLUS, and did a couple of applications in R:BASE. Then I made the final change to Paradox a little over three years ago. I liked it. It had a nice interface. You...

The Monterey Paradox Festival. (Borland International's Paradox data base management system; includes related article on mastering memory)
July 1, 1990... A crowd of- rowdy Paradox developers building a giant check-mark out of beer bottles and shouting Check-Do-it!" as they down their beers... A midnight debate about the prospects for a PAL compiler... A Paradox inventor arriving at a...

Shifting gears on the dBASE Server Edition; Dataline.
July 1, 1990... SAN FRANCISCO - At the Microsoft SQL Server Developer's Conference in May, Ashton-Tate demonstrated a new version of DBASE IV 1.1 Server Edition (the version of dBASE IV that can act as a front-end to the Microsoft SQL Server database...

More database server news. (WordTech Systems Inc.'s Quicksilver/SQL compiler) (product announcement)
July 1, 1990... ORINDA, CA - WordTech Systems, Inc. recently said they've begun shipping a SQLBase front-end version of Quicksilver, their DBASE compiler. According to the company, Quicksilver/SQL lets you access SQL data on Gupta Technologies' server,...

Sure, it's a free commercial. (HawkTek)
July 1, 1990... SAN RAFAEL, CA - One more player has joined the FoxPro training fray. John Hawkins, Data Based Advisor Contributing Editor, recently told Dataline that since his book, FoxPro Programming, is almost done, he'll be offering classes in all...

Are these facts? (Parting Shots)
July 1, 1990... I don't know much about much, but from living here in the country I've learned to tell an oink" from a gobble. I've Since this is a new column, let me explain the rules: if I say I believe it, I believe it. But don't believe anything...