I am a Java/C# programmer, now I join a company which has some projects developed by PowerBuilder. I just wonder that how does the SAP people (the people work for SAP but not from Sybase) look at PowerBuilder? Will SAP give up PowerBuilder? Many thanks.
PowerBuilder makes money. SAP likes money.
'nuf said.
Terry.
I have been working with SAP for more than 4 years and I do not even know what Powerbuilder is.
I've been working with SAP for 5 years or so, and for SAP for almost 1 year now.
The only Sybase product I've ever heard of (and actually used) is Sybase Unwired Platform, but I guess that is because the current team I'm part of is pretty much focused on mobile and ERP solutions.
Answering your question: I don't believe SAP will give up PowerBuilder, but that's just my opinion.
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I want to design a (web) interface where I can view, modify, insert records into my database along with many other features like use another table as reference. Basically like Oracle Forms & Reports.
What other apps have similar functionality?
I also want to know how frequently do enterprises use Oracle Forms - the application as well as the functionality provided in Oracle Application Express.
As far as I can tell, people usually switch from Forms to Apex (if we're staying with Oracle). For reporting, I still use Reports Builder (and call those reports from Apex).
As of Forms still being used: most of our applications are written in Forms; much less number in ADF or Apex. Versions we (as a company) use are 10g and 12c.
Worldwide? Reading forum discussions, I've seen that people in India use Forms very frequently, and they still use client-server 6i version.
So, although there are rumors (that last at least 2 decades) that Oracle is going to abandon Forms, that didn't happen. Will it? I don't know. In my opinion, Forms is a very good tool whose main drawback is that applications developed in it look oldfashioned & ugly (more or less). Users prefer Apex-like applications nowadays.
Finally, note that this is a primarily opinion-based answer (because the question is such) so ... maybe the community will close it for further discussion. Personally, I hate seeing anything closed (here or on any other forum I visit) & hope that you'll get some more opinions.
I have a pending project that may or may not be a good candidate for leveraging SQL Server Analysis Services. The project is based around business metric calculations.
Does anyone have some good recommended reading for a crash course in SQL Server Analysis Services that'll let me catch up to speed on what the capabilities and uses are to help me decide if it is worth digging in to further?
Thanks
I've been reading Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Brian Larson and think this is the best book for a beginner on the subject. He is a good writer and has an easy style. His focus is on the overview and allowing you to understand SSAS basics. I'm not sure a seasoned pro would get much out of it, but for me it was perfect. I've also got the Wrox Professional book, which has far more detail but is a less enjoyable read.
here is the answer for a similar question on stackoverflow, and has some useful links for a SSAS beginner. However some links for msdev.com are not working as given in th eanser but rest are good.
I want to know if you know other beautiful database drawing software other than visio.
Because i think visio is not delegant enough. So Can you give me some advice?
Thanks a lot.
I do not know Visio, but I have been using Dia for almost 10 years, and it's great. It's also free (as in speech).
Some people have compared Dia favorably to Visio.
Try www.magicdraw.com.
It produces beautiful diagrams.
Oracle Designer is the best i have ever used. however, it does not come cheap...
SQL Server has built in functions to create graphs.
Saves you from creating a graph first and than the db schema.
MySql Workbench is a nice Designer and free. The only drawback I find is that it only produce scripts for mysql.
I am migrating to Delphi 2010 and I am using Microsoft SQL 2000 (Planning on upgrading to SQL2008). I have been using BDE all along and wondering if I should use dbGo (ADO) or dbExpress with my future application. Can someone explain to me the pros and cons for using either one?
Thanks a lot.
I've recently had exactly the same dilemma, wondering whether to move away from ODBCExpress to ADO or dbExpress which are more supported out-of-the-box.
My decision was very simple in the end, as it was made for me: dbExpress is uni-directional, designed for executing queries, not for cursor-style movement through a dataset. You have to add extra support in order to use grids and other db-aware controls, by using the TDataSetProvider and TClientDataSet components. So it can be done but the extra layers ruled it out for me.
Zarko Gajic has an excellent article on it on his delphi.about.com site.
I'm sure others will disagree and that's good, I welcome the discussion.
For performance reason and future development I will go with dbExpress.
dbExpress has been pushed up since latest version, but dbGo didn't changed since Delphi 5 or 6, and it's include just few fixing with each version, while dbExpress has been getting more improvment with each versions specially in last few releases.
another options is to use SDAC from DevArt, it's has the best performance and has more advanced features for Sql server compared to other technologies.
For simple applications J's soltution might be good enough, but for client / server applications where performance is an issue I'd go for dbExpress. The article by Zarko pointed out before is indeed good reading material.
Can anyone recommend a good resource -- book, website, article, etc -- to help me learn SQL Server Analysis services.
I have no knowledge of this technology right now but I do constantly work with SQL server in the traditional sense.
I want to learn about Cubes and Using Reporting Services with it. I want to start from the bottom but after I finish with the material, ideally, I'd be able to stumble through a real development project...
I'm hoping to get started with a free resource but if anyone knows of a really good book, I'd take that too.
Or, if you don't know of a resource how did you get started with the technology?
Thank you,
Frank
Take a look Here for a list of AS resources I compiled in answer to a similar question.
Pretty outstanding book:
Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX
Gives you a good overview of the architecture of SSAS, as well as the query language MDX, and administrative/maintenance overview. A good primer for a developer OR a system administrator.
My personal favorite book on the topic is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
Mosha Pasumansky's blog is a great resource once you start learning more about the technology and MDX
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/default.aspx
Here's a link to Analysis Services Books online. It's a decent resource, and completely free.