Data Based Advisor articles from November 1995

Data Based Advisor archives from November 1995

Microsoft upgrades Systems Management Server. (SMS 1.1 centralized management tool) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Systems Management Server (SMS) 1.1, a centralized management tool for distributed systems, has been improved with features based on customer feedback. Top on the list is improved documentation, with step-by-step instructions for installing and...

LBMS acquires Corporate Computing. (Corporate Computing International consulting and process management software firm) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... LBMS, Inc., an application development tool provider, acquired Corporate Computing International, Inc., a privately held process management software and consulting firm. Terms of the agreement were not made public, although LBMS disclosed that...

Visigenic makes strides as ODBC provider. (Visigenic Software to provide Open Database Connectivity DriverSet to Computer Associates and Informix Software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Visigenic aligned with Computer Associates and Informix software, offering ODBC driver technology to both companies. Computer Associates and Informix will use Visigenic's ODBC Driverset, which is composed of drivers for Informix, Ca-Ingres,...

Win US$25,000 in Gupta code bake-off online. (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Gupta's first "Code Bake-Of" at the Gupta Developers' Conference last summer was a rousing success, so Gupta plans to conduct more "bake-offs" via CompuServe and the World Wide Web. The contest is open to all application developers in the U.S....

Alpha offers Windows 95 component suite. (AlphaBlox Corp's OfficeBlox OLE components)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Alpha Software Corp. formed AlphaBlox USA Inc., an independent software company. Its first offering is OfficeBlox, a Windows 95 software suite that was written as OLE components. It includes NoteBlox, a "yellow sticky note" type message maker;...

PowerBuilder Advisor coming soon. (Michael Horwith to head Advisor Publications' new magazine) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Contributing Editor, popular "PowerBuilder Pro" columnist, and PowerBuilder expert Michael Horwith is heading up Advisor Publications' new magazine, PowerBuilder Advisor. Publishing bimonthly, the Premiere issue of PowerBuilder Advisor will hit...

Internet Advisor coming soon. (Advisor Publications' new magazine to debut January 1996) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Developing applications that have online capabilities' are quickly becoming a strategic advantage. In January 1996, Advisor Publications launches InternetAdvisor, the magazine for building online applications on the Internet and other online...

Windows 95 means business. (Product Information)(Editorial)
November 1, 1995... As I write this, the Windows 95 launch is still big news. In several countries, people lined up at midnight to be the first to buy on August 24. One million copies were sold in the first four days. Aren't you excited? Lots of users are....

Advisor developers forum.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 1995... This new section includes comments, opinions, and dialogue from members of the development community. Specialization Equals Obsolescence How does the rapidly changing application development paradigm affect you? Regarding Mac Rubel's...

Managing your Notes data. (Percussion Software's Notrix and Notrix Compose 2.05 Lotus Notes application developers tools) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... Percussion Software's companion products, Notrix and Notrix Composer 2.05, give Lotus Notes application developers and administrators new tools to manipulate Notes data. Both are basically libraries that provide REXX with new functions (figure...

Coming events.(Directory)
November 1, 1995... ADVISOR Access Developers Conference Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, 15-18 October - Major technical education conference on developing applications with Microsoft Access for Windows 95, Visual Basic 4.0, Office for Windows 95, Access 2.0, BackOffice,...

The multi-faceted decision support tool. (Andyne Computing Ltd's PaBLO for Windows decision support software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... According to its documentation, PaBLO is "decision support software that lets you explore the data that portrays your multidimensional enterprise." Decision support software is a vague term, but it's hard to figure out what exactly to call this...

Spot inconsistencies in data. (WizSoft's WizRule for Windows database auditing tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... WizRule is a database auditing tool for Windows. Utilizing sophisticated algorithms, it uses artificial intelligence to analyze the data within an existing table. After revealing all rules for a table, it lists all records that violate those...

Develop ODBC applications in a snap. (InterSolv's InterSolv DataDirect Open Database Connectivity/ClassLib) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) environment is a strategy for providing a consistent interface to the many DBMSs in existence. Before ODBC came along, constructing an application that worked with all of these databases meant that...

High-performance tape backup protects data. (HP Colorado T1000 internal tape backup system) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... The HP Colorado T1000 tape backup system is a new design based on 3M's Travan tapes, which have more capacity than the QIC-80 tapes previously used by tape backup systems. This new tape backup technology provides both high capacity and high...

EVOLVE for Windows. (American Cybernetic's EVOLVE for Windows 7.0 Xbase add-on to Multi-Edit)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... The Xbase add-on to Multi-Edit for Windows, EVOLVE (v7.0) for Windows, provides easier accessibility through toolbars and pop-up menus, and dialogs have been upgraded to proper Windows screens, complete with Windows-style help access. When a...

New Access add-ins available. (FMS' Total Access Detective)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Total Access Detective gives Access users and developers the ability to compare objects, versions, and entire databases for differences. All differences, including properties, settings, fields, indexes, controls, code behind forms and reports,...

New Control Center module available. (Database Solutions Company's Configuration Manager database and hardware optimizer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Configuration Manager automatically optimizes your database and hardware configurations considering the trade-offs between Memory, CPU, and Disk I/O. Shows bottlenecks with possible allocations of available resources. Users can adjust allocations...

FaxFacts provides Windows solution and LAN support. (Copia's FFSERVER, FFWIN and FFMERGE utilities)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... FFSERVER fax Server API, FFWIN, and FFMERGE support Windows/NT and can handle any size system. FFServer features automatic network support and inbound routing for e-mail, and it runs on diskless fax server which greatly improves system...

Middleware client-server tool. (Software-Centric's Strike! Solo)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Strike! Solo for Windows provides access to Gupta's limited runtime SQLBASE using SQL from any Windows front-end tool with support for calling external DLLs. It contains the Strike! API consisting of two groups of function calls - one that...

Continuous operations support. (Versant Object Technology Corporation's ODBMS 4.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... VERSANT ODBMS 4.0 includes multi-user performance enhancements, server-based event notification, and administrative enhancements. Versant Fault Tolerant Server provides for continuous database operation and transparent server failover. Call for...

SQL-Programmer 1.85. (Sylvain Faust Inc's SQL-Programmer 1.85 for Windows)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... SQL-Programmer 1.85 for Windows supports Microsoft SQL Server 6.0. SQL-Programmer is available for a suggested retail price of US$599 and supports all versions of the SQL Server product from Microsoft and Sybase, including Sybase's SQL Server 10....

Extended technology vision. (Progress Software Corporation's PROGRESS 8.0 application development environment)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... The PROGRESS application development environment version 8 has entered beta testing and is scheduled for availability in the fall of 1995. PROGRESS version 8 provides a development framework and an on-line wizard help system to enable developers...

Windows 95 sales software. (TeLeVell Sales Solutions' TeleSell 95 sales automation program)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... TeLeVell Inc., announced the release of TeleSell 95, a Windows 95 32-bit sales automation program. TeleSell 95 allows users to take advantage of faster functionality and allows mobile users increased speed and effectiveness. In it's fifth full...

Accounting software premiere. (Power Marketing's AccountMate Premiere modular accounting system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... AccountMate Premiere is a modular accounting system based on Microsoft's FoxPro relational database technology. It has pull-down and pop-up menus, point-and-click data selection and mouse support, and a Windows-like interface. Its features...

New add-on tool for AccountMate users. (Power Marketing's Sage Datawriter report generator)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... The Sage Datawriter allows AccountMate users to create custom reports. letters, and labels. it can run a report repeatedly once it is designed which can be printed to paper, screen, or file; it can use up to 20 different datafiles on one report...

WWW new site development software. (W3.COM's W3Toolbox Website development application set)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... The [W.sup.3] Toolbox is a set of applications designed for UNIX platforms that significantly improves the Website development process and adds powerful new features to Web sites. The [W.sup.3] ConstructionSuite is the first release of [W.sup.3]...

Stylus telephony toolkit. (Stylus Innovation's Visual Voice for TAPI)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... Stylus Innovation, announced the general availability of Visual Voice for TAPI. Visual Voice is a new version of Stylus Innovation IS, a software toolkit designed for TAPI compliant telephony devices, such as faxes, modems, etc.. Extends the...

Blinker 3.2 (Blinkinc's real mode version of Blinker) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... Blinkinc has licensed a real mode version of Blinker to Computer Associates International, Inc. for CA-Clipper 5.3. Blinker 3.2, the complete protected mode version of Blinker, links C/C++, FORTRAN, Assembler, and earlier versions of CA-Clipper,...

True three-tier testing tool. (PLATINUM technology's PLATINUM Final Exam software testing tool suite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... Platinum technology announced the availability of PLATINUM Final Exam, a tool suite that automates software testing cycles in three-tier applications, and increases software quality throughout application development. PLATINUM Final Exam offers:...

Client-server processing for CA-VO. (Extended Systems' Advantage Xbase Server 3.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... Version 3.5 of the Advantage Xbase Server adds support for Computer Associates'Visual Objects. it brings client-server processing to database applications without rewriting and without limiting a user's ability to browse, scroll, and skip through...

Object-oriented technology extends to Internet. (InTEXT Systems, Wollongong form alliance) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1995... InTEXT Systems announced an alliance that adds InTEXT content-based analysis, routing and retrieval technology to Wollongong's universal internet access applications and allows InTEXT to comply with Wollongong's client object linking technology...

What's all the fuss about SQL3? (new version of American National Standards Institute's standard) (Technology Information)
November 1, 1995... You work with relational database products, but why should you care about SQL3 when most vendors aren't yet in full compliance with SQL2 (also known as SQL-92)? You care because changes to the language will impact your day-to-day activities. The...

Use OLE to bring your business to the Web. (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... Have you ever heard about Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and wondered what it could do for you? Have you read about how large corporations are using OLE to solve enterprise-wide solutions, then dismissed it for your own...

Internet resources for database developers. (Technology Information)
November 1, 1995... Developers who tap into the resources offered on the Net have a significant advantage over those who don't. Partly due to the Internet's explosive popularity and partly as a result of the widening perspective of database developers, the number...

Object database technology: what's ahead? (Technology Information)
November 1, 1995... Learn about the differences between relational and object database models, and find out what various object database vendors are saying about the object database marketplace. Despite the current hype about object-oriented programming, the...

Five companies show how to make it work. (Object Oriented Programming Case Studies)(includes vendor directory) (Technology Information)
November 1, 1995... The move to client-server or distributed computing has been the driving force behind the adoption of many new technologies over the past few years. Perhaps one of the most prevalent of these is the move to object-oriented development and the use...

POET extends C++ development. (POET Software's POET 3.0 Personal object database management system) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 1, 1995... POET 3.0 Personal, US$499; Professional, US1,995 POET Software, Inc. 999 Baker Way, Suite 100 San Mateo, California 94404 800 950-8845, (415)286-4640 Fax (415)286-4630 Relational databases work well when simple lists of data must and...

New England Research Institute uses FoxPro to distribute information. (Product Information)
November 1, 1995... New England Research Institutes (NERI) is a 150-person firm specializing in medical research. NERI receives grants and contracts, primarily from the federal government, to conduct and coordinate research studies. This involves development of...

Data-Aware .DLLs a la Delphi. (Using Delphi to create dynamic link libraries) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... What do DBASE, Paradox, PowerBuilder, SQLWindows, and Visual Basic have in common? If your answer is, "They're all excellent visual database development tools," you're not far off the mark. Apart from being good Windows development tools with...

The pipeline object eases batch data updates. (using PowerSoft's PowerBuilder)(includes related article on automatic sorting of DataWindow columns) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... The PowerBuilder pipeline object is a great tool for moving data from one database to another, even across different database management systems. There are a number of reasons for doing this. Perhaps you're migrating data from Watcom to Sybase....

Add instant sort and select to your applications. (using PowerSoft's PowerBuilder) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... Users spend a lot of time twisting their data. Sort on this column. Select all records with that item code. Select this customer, then sort by date. The usual way to offer sorting is through a menu or a drop-down list. Data selection often means...

Models, models, everywhere.... (Popkin Software and Systems' Ron Scherma and Jan Popkin, CASE software populists) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
November 1, 1995... Popkin Software and Systems is committed to giving you a range of data-modeling methodologies. Popkin Software and Systems is the creator of System Architect, one of the most popular repository-based data modeling tools on the market. With a...

Creating class objects in Visual Basic 4.0 (Microsoft's object oriented application development software) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... "Legacy code" is a polite euphemism you and I use to describe those projects on the mainframe that we haven't rewritten yet. You might use "legacy system" to describe all the water-cooled iron downstairs in the Operations area, and even (with a...

Stomp out bugs with the debugger. (Microsoft Access 2.0) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... Last time, I showed you how to greatly reduce the chance of bugs in your applications by helping the compiler catch many of your errors. Despite everything you do to help the compiler, your code is apt to contain some logic errors. These types of...

Data integrity, part II: the keys to protecting FoxPro data. (Microsoft FoxPro 2.x, Visual FoxPro 3.0) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... This time, John takes a look at entity integrity and explains why it's an important concern for FoxPro developers. In the October issue, I introduced you to the concepts of data integrity Also highlighted were the application's role as the...

DataWindow tips and tricks. (Computer Associates' CA-Visual Objects 1.0b)(includes related articles on the future of CA-Visual Objects and adding window types to VO's window editor) (Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1995... During its last year of CA-Visual Objects development and training, my company has accumulated lots of useful tips and tricks for working with Visual Objects. Hopefully among the tips I share this month are real world issues that you've come up...

Doing client-server development is easier than ever! (Visual dBASE 5.5 enhancements)(Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
November 1, 1995... Visual dBASE 5.5 includes many enhancements that make client-server applications easier to create. Recognizing the growing importance of client-server to Xbase developers, Borland International has made some significant and innovative...

Database Confidential.
November 1, 1995... Good-bye Home Shopping Network, hello home shopping computer. Buzz expects to soon be using a new, secure way of handling credit card purchases over the World Wide Web called SecurePay Here's how it works: SecurePay uses a secure credit card...