Btrieve Developer's Journal
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Btrieve® Spring April-June 1994 Developer’s Journal Vol. II No. 2 THE INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR BTRIEVE DEVELOPERS AND USERS partners to fulfill complementary needs Novell-BTI Agreement Finalized defined by our customers. New Products Already Under Development “We are excited about the Austin, Texas On May 9, 1994, Btrieve is fully equipped to support database opportunity to work with Novell and to Technologies, Inc. announced that it has customers by providing powerful data unlock the full potential of these finalized the agreement with Novell, Inc. management tools. Our strong leadership products,” said Ron Harris, to acquire Novell’s database product line, commitment to this partnership and this president and chief executive officer, including Btrieve, NetWare SQL, XQL, technology ensures a win-win situation for Btrieve Technologies, Inc. “The many and Xtrieve PLUS. Under the terms of the Novell, Btrieve Technologies, and the thousands of Btrieve and NetWare SQL agreement, the transfer of all customers and partners relying on the developers can be assured that this development, support, and marketing Btrieve standard.” partnership will aggressively deliver rights for the Btrieve database product line Btrieve Technologies has improved products and services to ensure will take place immediately. The recruited the key personnel representing our customers’ continued success.” agreement defines a strategic partnership engineering, support, marketing, and sales Btrieve Technologies offers between the two companies, with Novell and is dedicated to aggressively enhancing leading edge information management retaining an equity interest in Btrieve the existing Btrieve and NetWare SQL products, each founded upon the core Technologies, occupying a seat on the database software, as well as adding new database technologies of Btrieve and Btrieve Technologies Board of Directors, products to that offering. With a strategic NetWare SQL. Btrieve, the most widely bundling and shipping the Btrieve emphasis on performance, reliability, used data management system in the database software as a part of NetWare scalability, and multi-platform support, world, provides professional programmers and future Novell products, offering Btrieve Technologies will pursue the ability to write business-critical NetWare SQL and related products on the development, channel, and business SEE AGREEMENT ON PAGE 17 Novell product price list, as well as the commitment to work closely together to ensure Novell’s Processor Independent BDJ Chosen to Replace PDS Bullets NetWare (PIN) group, UNIX OEM’s, and New Technical Corner Section Introduced others are provided with compatible database technology. Nashville, Tenn. Btrieve Developer’s coordinate the new “Technical Corner” “The transfer of the Btrieve data Journal and Btrieve Technologies, Inc. section of BDJ. This new section will management product line from Novell to jointly announced that BDJ will replace include lists of all current versions of their Btrieve Technologies and the related the Novell PDS Bullets publication to database products, the availability and strategic alliance is a significant step in keep Btrieve and NetWare SQL location of all product patches, answers to providing enhanced data management developers and users informed about the most commonly asked technical capabilities to our customers,” said technical issues surrounding Btrieve questions, and official information on new Richard King, executive vice president Technologies’ product line. product development. and general manager NetWare Systems Beginning with the Summer issue “Btrieve Developer’s Journal is Group. “Btrieve Technologies, with its (July through September 1994), Btrieve committed to providing the Btrieve and vision, experience, and specialized focus, Technologies will begin to manage and NetWare SQL community with the latest information on all marketing and technical IN THIS ISSUE aspects of Btrieve Technologies’ product line,” said Scott Smith, Publisher of BDJ. Interview... Btrieve Technologies principals Data Types Explained... Steve “That Btrieve Technologies has agreed to Nancy Woodward, Ron Harris, and Doug Mook looks at more of the ways that fields of data manage the “Technical Corner” section is Woodward talk about the what we might expect as can be packed into Btrieve........................Page 18 not only important for us as an the results of the Novell-BTI agreement......Page 8 Btrieve Applied... Gary Coombs of organization, but also for the users of Inside Btrieve... Doug Reilly takes us Scientific Atlanta explains why he chose to use Btrieve Technologies’ products who have on a tour of extended Btrieve operations...Page 10 Btrieve for a critical applicaiton..................Page 14 asked for current and up-to-date technical and product information.” Guest Review... Randy Goodhew takes Access Examined... Scott Smith According to Ron Harris, an in depth look at one of the best database reviews Microsoft Access 2.0 as a method to development packages that uses Btrieve..Page 22 examine and manipulate Btrieve data.......Page 25 President and CEO of Btrieve Technologies, “We are excited about the SEE PDS BULLETS, PAGE 3 FreeStyle Report BTI Demonstrates Btrieve ALM at NetWorld+Interop ’94 Austin, Texas Btrieve Technologies, Inc. Harris, President and CEO of Btrieve Writer Supports unveiled an AppWare Loadable Module Technologies, Inc. “Novell’s AppWare (ALM) implementation of Btrieve, the strategy allows us to introduce 5GL Btrieve industry standard data management programmers to the benefits of client-server system, at NetWorld-Interop 94 in Las computing with Btrieve that thousands of Nashville, Tenn. CrystalLogic, Inc. has just Vegas. 3GL and 4GL programmers currently released a new version of their DOS-based The Btrieve ALM provides a link enjoy. The combination of Btrieve and FreeStyle Report Writer. between applications developed using NetWare SQL provides an effective While FreeStyle supports several Novell’s Visual AppBuilder and the database hierarchy for information common database formats including Btrieve, management applications, including new the company claims that their various Btrieve data management engine. Visual methods of accessing Btrieve makes the AppBuilder is a high-level programming applications developed using Visual product quite unique. Although FreeStyle can tool enabling developers to graphically AppBuilder and Btrieve ALM.” access Btrieve data through the standard construct full-featured applications by “The availability of a Btrieve Btrieve TSR, it can also read Btrieve version linking icons representing prebuilt ALM is a critical addition to the AppWare 5.x files directly without the TSR, and can ALM’s, eliminating the need to write suite of software. It provides graphical also read Btrieve BUTIL -SAVE format text hundreds of lines of code. access to the industry’s leading data files. “Btrieve Technologies is management system, making this powerful FreeStyle uses its own data committed to working with industry technology available to a broader number definition format called FDF’s, or “File leaders to create advanced development of developers than ever before,” said Joe Definition Formats.” For users who already environments that are fully integrated with Firmage, Vice President, Novell AppWare have existing standard Btrieve DDF’s, Btrieve and NetWare SQL,” said Ron Systems Group.² however, FreeStyle includes the ability to import DDF table definitions. The system’s menu options allow Revised Btrieve Book Introduced you to define the structure of your Btrieve NETWARE BTRIEVE VERSION 6.X COVERED IN DETAIL files, design reports using the WYSIWYG layout screen, choose record selection criteria, Woodland Hills, Calif. Golden West covered in the book is also available. record order, and individual expressions, and Products International has introduced The The book was authored by define data groups. Other options include the Illustrated Guide to NetWare Btrieve 6.x former Novell employee Richard Trocino, ability to cut, copy, and paste data fields which is designed for programmers, business analyst for Novell’s Austin site, directly to and from multiple reports, and the database administrators, and managers and the book was edited by Kirk menu and dialog driven interface includes who use NetWare Btrieve 6.x. Humphries, the former editor of PDS complete context sensitive help. FreeStyle supports all standard Btrieve key data types. The book focuses on topics Bullets, Novell’s developer support FreeStyle version 2.10 carries a unique to Btrieve version 6.x. Many publication. suggested retail price of $149.95. Contact illustrations and figures are included, as The book costs $39.95 and the CrystalLogic at (615) 391-9100 or FAX: well as explanations of all Btrieve utility disk is $24.95. Call the book’s (615) 391-9997. ² operations with C language example distributor, MIDI America, of Marietta, programs. A utility diskette with materials Georgia, at (404) 565-4684. ² Btrieve Developer’s Journal How To Contact Btrieve Developer's Journal: You may address news items, new product announcements, tips, advice, Btrieve Developer’s Journal (ISSN 1071-7463) is published comments, complaints, praise, or any other correspondence to: quarterly by Smithware, Inc. Btrieve Developer's Journal, Post Office Box 50002, 713 Lynnwood Blvd., Nashville, Tennessee 37205. Subscriptions: $49/year inside the United States, $79/year Telephone: (615) 860-3500 outside the United States. Facsimile: