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- From: devilbis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Warren C DeVilbiss)
- Subject: Database engines for Windows - Responses
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.124617.16921@uwm.edu>
- Followup-To: devilbis@oieng.mke.ab.com
- Summary: Responses posted to request for database information
- Originator: devilbis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:46:17 GMT
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- The following are the responses I received from my inquiry into Windows
- database engines.
-
- In addition to the following response -
- Paradox will be releasing an update to their engine with will support the
- enhanced Paradox 4.0 file format. This release is suppose to be in October.
-
- Raima has two new versions of its database engine out - Data Manager, which
- is a network model with an optional relational front end - and Object
- Manager, which is a persistant storage mechanism for OOP.
-
- Hope someone finds this information useful. Thanks to all who responded to
- my request.
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- Warren DeVilbiss devilbis@oieng.mke.ab.com
- Allen-Bradley Company devilbis@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (414) 382-2826
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- From axs9017@hertz.njit.edu Fri Aug 28 08:58:15 1992
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 09:58:03 -0400
- From: axs9017@hertz.njit.edu (Alexander Shinkar)
-
- Try CodeBase It meets all your wants... but they say to use LARGE memory model
- If you have questions about it, e-mail me directly
- Alex
- axs9017@hertz.njit.edu
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- From @sunray.att.com:slg@cb.att.com Fri Aug 28 14:44:38 1992
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 15:32:23 EDT
- From: slg@cb.att.com (Sean Gilley)
-
- No answers, unfortunately. I'm just looking for a database engine,
- myself, so would be more than interested in whatever answers you
- receive...
-
- Well, I will throw one more name into the hat, I guess. FoxPro does
- provide a db engine with their db software.
-
- Sean.
-
- ---
- Sean L. Gilley
- sean.l.gilley@att.com sgilley@cbnewsl[.cb].att.com, slg2@cblph[.cb].att.com
- 614 236 5031 (h), 614 860 5743 (w)
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- From rocket.sanders.com!pitaro@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com Fri Aug 28 18:42:10 1992
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:00:46 EDT
- From: pitaro@rocket.sanders.com (Michael Pitaro)
-
- . Redistributable DLL, royalty free.
- . Prefer medium model.
- . Reasonably good support.
- . Prefer file format compatible with commercial database tools.
-
- I just bought CodeBase 2.5 (?) so I'm not yet an expert with it. It
- seems to meet all of your requirements except that they prefer large
- model. Source code is provided, however, so you could recompile
- depending on how it is coded. A nice feature is that they include
- CodeWindows, a subroutine library of data entry interface under
- windows. They support DBase formats as well as Foxbase and others.
- They also have a BBS and telephone support. The street price is
- around $250. I would have to say that the documentation is a little
- lacking. It is more of a reference guide with some examples. I would
- have liked to see seom sort of overview tutorial with philosophy of
- writing database programs. They do have a few tutorials but they are
- trivial. The CodeWindows manual is similar but has a few more
- tutorials. I would have appreciated some more hand holding from the
- tutorial. I am new to both Windows coding and Database coding. It
- took me some time to realize I had to copy the DLL into the windows
- directory to make the software work. The makefiles provided for the
- examples didn't work until I added the paths for the CodeBase
- includes, this could have been done at the factory. Also, the test
- programs they included take alot of disk space. I bought Microsoft
- C/C++ 7.0 so I don't have much room to spare. I would have liked to
- see their test code check for disk space requirements it runs. The
- errors it returned were not intuitive. My overall recommendation is
- that it is a worthwhile package with a well written reference manual
- but poor tutorial.
-
- Michael Pitaro Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
- PO Box 868, MER24-1583C
- Signal Processing Center of Technology Nashua, NH 03061-0868
- pitaro@rocket.sanders.com 603/885-9794 (Voice)
- (or) ...!uunet!rocket!pitaro 603/885-0631 (FAX)
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- From rudersdo@sfu.ca Tue Sep 1 14:29:01 1992
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:28:47 -0700
- From: rudersdo@sfu.ca
-
- Warren, we are looking for this info as well. Currently we are leaning
- toward Codebase 4.5 as it comes with source and claims no royalties.
- We would sure appreciate any comments regarding any limitations or
- ortherwise comments if you have them. Thanx in advance Terry Rudersdorfer
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- From kovert@wam.umd.edu Sun Aug 30 19:59:38 1992
- From: Todd Kover <kovert@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 20:59:23 -0400
-
- I've used the Paradox Engine. It meets the first requirement, the third and
- the fourth. I've never had a need to use the technical support, but I know
- it's there, and is probably about the same as the rest of Borland's.
-
- It's slower than Paradox 3.5, but it's somewhat easy to use. It's really
- basic, and gives you access to the low level database, itself, but not the
- forms, reports, etc, that are attached to a table.
-
- I also understand that with the new version of Paradox, they'll be releasing
- a new version of the Engine later this year. I haven't heard anything about
- it, except that they're going to, but I'd imagine it's sped up some.
-
- I'm using the latest version, 2.0...
-
- Any other questions I may be able to answer for you, please feel free to
- E-Mail me.
-
- -Todd
-
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