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Item    9461337                 94/04/13        11:32
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Subject: SchemaE press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lowell Schneider
Schema Research Corporation
2603 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
415-368-8477 or [e-mail]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Schema Research Ships Oracle-compatible SchemaE 1.2
and Plans Price Increase

Redwood City, CA,  April 13, 1994 -- Schema Research Corporation
began shipping version 1.2 of SchemaE (tm) today, which includes
support for Oracle databases.  The company also announced that
SchemaE pricing would increase from $2,500 to $3,300 on May 13,
1994, which more closely aligns with the pricing of comparable
products.


SchemaE upgrades are 15% of the list price at the time of upgrade
purchase; as such they will reflect the SchemaE price increase in
May.   Nine months free support and maintenance, including
software patches and upgrades, is included with SchemaE purchases.
Customers whose free support and maintenance expired on or after
March 13, 1994 will receive a special 30-day support extension
which will provide for the new version of SchemaE at no charge.

SchemaE-50(tm), which sells for $950 and provides all of the same
features and capabilities as SchemaE but limits database size to
50 tables, will not be affected by the price increase.
SchemaE is a NEXTSTEP (r) CASE database design and management tool
that integrates with the NEXTSTEP object-oriented software
development tools InterfaceBuilder (r) and Database Kit (r) (DB
Kit)for building client/server systems quickly and without
extensive programming.  SchemaE speeds development and improves
the design process by eliminating the need for SQL scripts or
programming to update database designs.  By reverse engineering
the database every work session, SchemaE presents a comprehensive,
up-to-date picture of the database schema.  Changes such as
creating tables, adding columns, or changing data types are simple
graphical changes to the schema diagram.
"From a productivity standpoint, I can do in hours what would
otherwise take days," said Stephen R. Martin of Integrity
Solutions. "I can graphically make the changes instead of typing
them at the command line.  SchemaE presents a visual
representation that is easily conveyed to others, both with the
diagram and the reports. The visual format improves communication,
especially with folks in various business units who aren't
necessarily database experts. SchemaE is an easy 10 to 1,
sometimes 20 to 1, improvement in productivity.  It integrates
things you normally do manually into one step.  I couldn't do
without this tool."

Version 1.2 enhances the scope and flexibility of interacting with
databases through several important new features.

Support for Oracle: SchemaE V1.2 now does for Oracle(r) database
designs what it has been doing for Sybase(r).  Like their Sybase
counterparts, Oracle users will now be able to change the design
of a database as often as needed without touching a SQL script.
The SchemaE-Oracle interface is identical to the SchemaE-Sybase
interface, except where database architecture differs.  SchemaE
V1.2 supports Oracle V6 and V7.

Access Modes/Tiered Privileges: There are two very important
access-related changes in V1.2. The first is that SchemaE can now
open databases in four modes: standard, modeling-only, read-only
and exclusive mode. Exclusive mode locks the database from other
users while in use by SchemaE. The second important change is that
SchemaE can now be used by non-DBO's without compromising database
security.

These two major changes open up the benefits of SchemaE to a much
wider group of potential users. The tiered privileges concept
supports the Sybase and Oracle security architectures whereby
users with database privileges can change only those objects they
own. This enhancement allows SchemaE to fit smoothly into the
database administration policies of most companies where database
designers are often not granted DBO privileges. Fully privileged
users can choose restricted modes to ensure that unintentional
changes are not implemented.

Query Capability: A new utility called InterSQL widens the scope
of SchemaE's design environment with a slick drag-and-drop query
capability that has been received with a great deal of excitement
from V1.2 beta testers.

InterSQL queries instantly prove that SchemaE manages the
continuity of data through schematic changes. As SchemaE changes
the database design, InterSQL allows you to see the effects of the
schema changes on your data. While not a full-featured query tool,
InterSQL solves many immediate problems of users who simply need
to view data easily to validate that the design is functioning
properly.

Multi Column Keys: SchemaE now supports multi-column foreign and
common keys. To avoid creating an artificial unique ID, many
SchemaE users create concatenated primary keys. Now these
multi-column primary keys can be used in foreign or common key
relationships in the same way as single column keys, and SchemaE
displays the complex relationship graphically as well as recording
it in the data dictionary.

Support for New and Old Versions of Sybase SQLServer: SchemaE V1.2
supports System 10, the latest SQLServer from Sybase, and it
supports SQLServer 4.0.1 which shipped with the original NeXT
hardware.  In addition, a SchemaE utility migrates database
designs from Engineering to Production.
New Report Format and Built-in SQL Source Code Generation:
Dictionary reports are now generated by technology licensed from
Integrity Solutions. Reports are in the flexible RTF format and
can be transferred easily into other documentation. The source
code generation capability that previously required a user to run
the separate utility SR Sql, is now built into the SchemaE
interface. SR Sql continues to provide value as an interactive SQL
tool and as a batch mode utility.

Scalable Diagrams for Viewing and Printing: Diagrams can now be
scaled to any size for printing, and large diagrams can be printed
on multiple pages with an overlap that allows cut-and-paste
reassembly to a poster-sized document. Likewise, diagrams can be
scaled for on-screen viewing. As always, tables can be scaled up
or down by changing the font size, thus providing visual contrast
between symbols to focus or organize the diagram.
Feedback Panel Sends Messages Direct to Schema Research: You can
now tell us what you think as quickly as you can type it. The
Feedback panel of SchemaE provides a feedback/message area, and
you just press the Send button when you are finished (you must be
connected to the Internet). No application switching and no e-mail
address to remember. This very convenient feature is technology
licensed from Integrity Solutions, the providers of the RTF-format
report engine described above.
Schema Research has been providing database expertise since 1988.
In addition to SchemaE and SchemaE-50, Schema Research's product
line includes SchemaModeler (tm) for $380, SchemaView (tm) for
$195, SRTransport (tm) for $5,000, and SRTrigger (tm) for $350.

Please call 415-368-8477 for more information.



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