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Re: idea-place
Hi Sue; Thank you (I think) for the update on the current situation. Its amazing though in this high-tech world of IT that while we design our systems with proper back-ups, redundancies, parallel...
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Hi Dale, Do you know/agree, for sure, that I could use ASA for "free" under current SAP policy? My existing interface can access ASA just as easily as any other ODBC compliant database. My...
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Hi Mark, XML files is an option, however:1. There will be many of them - one for each table (approx 30 tables) whereas something like Access has only a single MDB file.2. They are vulnerable to user...
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That error usually means that you are not on the domain. Here is a function that should do what you want: public function boolean wf_checklogin (string as_domain, string as_userid, string...
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Hey Larry, That link is pretty old (relatively speaking). Over the last year or so I've read numerous Microsoft statements indicating that the Native Client Interface is their go-forward technology....
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Hey Larry, Nope, don't know for sure. That said, historically the ASA runtime could be freely deployed with all PowerBuilder applications, and I rather doubt SAP has changed the licensing in this...
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I think Datadirect sells an XML ODBC driver but I haven't used it. I was thinking the same think as Scott whereas you would load your data into datastores at start up and access them from there. If...
View ArticleInstall EBF 21365 over top of 12.5.2?
When I try to install this EBF, I get the message: ---------------------------PowerBuilder - InstallShield Wizard---------------------------The setup has detected that version 12.05.002 of PowerBuilder...
View ArticleRe: RegistryGet of TMP environment in Windows 7 returns -1
Using GetTempPath is still a good way to get the path for temp files, but for other environment variables (and registry settings in general), I was just stating that you need to use the proper...
View ArticleRe: Date function in DataWindow with decimal argument
date() as a powerscript function accepts integers or string, but date() as a dw function only accepts a string argument according to the help file.
View ArticleRe: Install EBF 21365 over top of 12.5.2?
Nope, I've installed Build 5550 (aka EBF 21365) over Build 5006 on two different machines now and had no such issues. FWIW, for PowerBuilder installs and EBFs I never "double-click" the Setup.exe file,...
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Hi Larrry; No, SA (old name ASA) only had a free run-time distributable for "stand-alone" use only. Then in SA v12 they even dropped that. So to use/deploy any server version of SA - you MUST buy a...
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Hi Roland; SQLite is great but it does not come in a server (concurrent user) version. It is meant only for stand-alone & embedded device use with a singlular instance of your application....
View ArticleRe: Best and most Economical Localised Database
Hi Larry; I would not "pussy foot" around. Use SQL Server Express all the way. Its free, easy to install & maintain and fast! In fact, its just as much work installing & configuring MySQL as...
View ArticleRe: Best Performing Connectivity Technology
Hi Larry; In my recent testing of O11G and SS2008 drivers I get performance variances between the native and "other" alternatives any where from 5 - 35%. Typically, the ODBC driver works very well on...
View ArticleRe: Best and most Economical Localised Database
The original post was about a place to store static data on the client pc. The dynamic data would continue to be accessed from a server database.
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Ahhhh .. thanks Roland - I missed that key part on the initial read. <my bad>
View ArticleRe: Best and most Economical Localised Database
I think one of us is missing something important. I understood your goal to be the separation of your existing monolithic database into 2 separate entities - one for local data that would be updated...
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PFC has a message service that you might want to look at to see if you could apply something similar. It can either be pointed at a database or a local file to read the data. If a local file, it just...
View ArticlePowerBuilder and HANA today - with Appeon
Does anyone need to deploy their PB app to the cloud, or add support for Big Data and analytics? You can do that today with Appeon. Want to see for yourself?...
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