Data Based Advisor articles from June 1990

Data Based Advisor archives from June 1990

Editor's file: Esber's out. (Ashton-Tate chairman and CEO Edward J. Esber, Jr.) (editorial)
June 1, 1990... On April 30, Ashton-Tate Chairman/CEO Edward J. Esber, Jr. resigned after continued quarterly losses and an orgy of bad press. Most notably, a recent Wall Street Journal article laid to waste any vestiges of confidence in Esber ("How...

Feedback. (letters to the editor) (letter to the editor)
June 1, 1990... Paradox Piecemeal I've been subscribing for about a year and I'm reasonably happy with Brian Smith's coverage of Paradox. Please continue publishing entire scripts. I've found past code "fragments" confusing to piece together and follow....

SnapApp: the application generator for FoxPro. (from Plaid Software) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... Are you an "xbase" programmer looking for a quick start with FoxPro? Maybe you've written simple programs in FoxBASE+ and now you want to "really get into" FoxPro. Well, Plaid Software's SnapApp may be just what you're looking for. SnapApp is...

Data bytes. (Informix Software Inc, Progress Software Corp)
June 1, 1990... Data Bytes Looking to choose a relational database management stem? If, after reading this month's cover story, you're intrigued by the technology but you need to know more, Informix Software, Inc. publishes a great buying guide: "How to Choose...

Make up your mind. (Dr Switch, memory management tool) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... Dr. Switch, from Black and White International, Inc., is one of those programs designed to do one thing, and do it well. While so many other programs are trying to be all things to all users, Dr. Switch tries to be a good memory management...

Data bytes. (Alto Microcomputer Inc, Advanced Data Servers) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... Data Bytes Alto Microcomputer, inc. announced a collection of interfaces to Novell's Btrieve Record Manager for Clipper, FoxBASE+, FoxPro, DBASE III PLUS, and DBASE IV. The interfaces are made up of three basic components: the interface to...

Blueprint for a database. (ERwin from LogicWorks) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... ERwin, from LogicWorks,is the kind of tool developers will love. As its name implies, it's an Entity Relationship modeling package that runs under Microsoft Windows. ER diagrams, invented by Peter Chen, have become the most widely accepted...

Data interrogation. (YSC Tech's Query 2.1) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... Query, version 2.1, by YSC Tech, lets you perform ad hoc queries on dBASE Ill PLUS and dBASE IV databases using interactive SQL statements. You can generate various reports and queries by filling in a table or making choices from pull-down...

Data bytes. (Digital Composition Systems Inc, Lotus Development Corp) (product announcement)
June 1, 1990... Digital Composition Systems, Inc. announced dbPUBLISHER for Ventura. You can now use dbPUBLISHER as a control center for Ventura to access information from over 75 different databases, spreadsheets, and word processors. Its reporting functions...

Promises, promises . . . (Microrim Inc, Synchronicity Research)
June 1, 1990... Over the past year, Microrim's tried to let developers know how important they are to the company. With last spring's release of their R:BASE compiler, Microrim finally came through. They also stated that the compiler would take a course...

Risky business. (using new products)(The VAR Report)
June 1, 1990... Being the first to work with a new product can get you burned or help you earn I've always marveled at the vision, courage, and drive of those souls who venture into the unknown. You know: people crossing uncharted seas and mountains,...

Up the organization. (The Paradox Programmer) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... Speed up your Paradox applications by reorganizing your directory Nobody likes slow systems. But did you know that DOS has a built-in speed trap guaranteeing that your Paradox applications will run slowly, unless you know about the trap and...

Screen backflips. (Clarion developer) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... Learn how to create intuitive, friendly screens with Clarion's powerful input/output capabilities This month I'll explore the methods and techniques required to fully use Clarion's screen I/O capabilities. With Clarion you can perform...

DELETE: out with the old. (structured query language)(Hands-on SQL) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... You should follow one key rule when removing old data from your database with the DELETE command Last month I looked at how to INSERT rows into existing tables. INSERT's syntax and structure are relatively straightforward-the data...

Coping with multiuser contention. (structured query language functions) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... SQL update operations (INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE) are serious business when it comes to developing multiuser systems based on relational database systems. What's serious, and how serious is it? As serious as you think contention and deadlock...

Wield programming power with simple UDFs. (user-defined functions)(dBASE IV Primer) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... Learn how to write your own user-defined functions and pass parameters in this step- by-step guide Before finishing last month's application, I want to tell you about some of the things we'll be doing in the months ahead. Once we finish...

The rules of scope and lifetime. (Clipper 5.0)(Hardcore Clipper) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... Learn how to make your code more readable by following some simple rules for designating the scope and lifetime of a variable or subroutine This month we'll look at two important programming language attributes: the scope and lifetime of...

Window events. (FoxPro)(The Fox Files) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... Letting users pick any window anytime is an easy matter with FoxPro's event-driven programming This month I'll continue my discussion of event-driven programming. So far, we've looked at the difference between menu- driven and event-driven...

DB/Expo '90. (database trade show)
June 1, 1990... This database show focused on the swiftest currents running through the industry The two conferences-last year's DB/EXPO and this year's-were as different as night and day. I considered the atmosphere at DB/EXPO '89 almost collegial (see...

Quadbase SQL: the DBF/SQL connection that works. (Software Review) (structured query language) (evaluation)
June 1, 1990... Would you prefer accessing dBASE databases with the industry standard, SQL? Quadbase Systems, the folks who showed us that DBASE IV's SQL doesn't always work the way it should, now offers Quadbase SQL. This package lets C or Clipper programmers...

Managing text. (in a database)(includes related articles on text searches)
June 1, 1990... Some types of information defy organization. That's why you need text managers-a special breed of software-to handle the job First, let's get one thing straight. Text managers are the classic "horse of a different color." They're a unique...

dBASE and SQL: mixing metaphors. (structured query language)
June 1, 1990... This month I'll look at the problems inherent in connecting a system based on the dBASE language (such as dBASE IV or Quicksilver) to a database server based on SQL. I'll concentrate on approaches that use a command-mapping application...

The DBF divulged. (DBF database file) (tutorial)
June 1, 1990... This article details how the DBF database file is built and shows you how to list the structures using DOS wildcards About once a month someone asks me about the structure of DBF or index files. Nobody seems to notice that the DBF file...

The whole catalog of Clipper libraries, part 4. (dCL-Net Library, Soft.Clip, SuperFunction Library) (buyers guide)
June 1, 1990... * dCL-Net Library Database Software Consultants 2100 Rio Grande, No. 3 Austin, Texas 78705 (512) 477-3423 This collection of network functions, written entirely in Clipper, converts single-user applications to...

Dataline.
June 1, 1990... So that's why they're trying again TORRANCE, CA - Ashton-Tate reported a first-quarter loss of $1 million (vs. the $11.5 million profit reported a year earlier for the same time period). This drop doesn't come close to matching...

One small step for dBASE, eighteen months for mankind. (FoxPro, dBASE IV 1.0)
June 1, 1990... I've been writing this column for about a year and a half now, and we still have not seen dBASE IV version 1.1. I don't know for sure that the product hasn't been released, because I'm writing this on April Fool's Day. But based on past...

Database report: an update on relational technology.
June 1, 1990... Not so long ago, I consulted for a very large organization committed to a particular database architecture. They expressed concern about the rise of client-server computing and the prevalence of relational systems......Was it time, they...