refimprove date July 2011 Infobox programming language name Vulcan dBase II paradigm Imperative programming ... title dBasedBase II was the first widely used database management system DBMS for microcomputer ... as dBASE III, and ported to a wider variety of platforms, adding UNIX , and OpenVMS VMS . ref cite web title dBASE IV for VMS and UNIX a technical support approach url http www.worldcatlibraries.org ... referred to as xBase . Many of these were technically stronger than dBase, but could not make a major dent in the market until dBase IV was introduced with many problems. This was coincident with an industry ... world, and the disappearance of Ashton Tate with their sale to Borland in 1991. The rights to the dBase product line were sold in 1999 to the newly formed dBase Inc. In 2004, dBase Inc. changed its name to dataBased Intelligence, Inc. dBase s underlying file format, the tt .dbf tt file, is widely used in many other applications needing a simple format to store structured data. Recent history dBase ... applications, and middleware applications. dBase can access most modern database engines via ODBC drivers. dBase features an IDE with a Command Window and Navigator, a just in time compiler, a preprocessor, a virtual machine interpreter, a linker for creating dBase application .exe s, a freely ... and deploying a dBase application, and an integrated Debugger. dBase features structured exception ... File, String, Math, Array, Date, Exception, Object and others. dBase objects can be dynamically subclassed by adding new properties to them at runtime. The current version of dBase, dBase Plus, is fully compatible with earlier 32 bit versions of dBASE including Visual dBASE 7.x and dB2K. It is partly compatible with 16 bit Windows versions dBASE for Windows 5.x and Visual dBASE 5.x ref cite web title Migrating Applications from Visual dBASE 5.x to Visual dBASE 7 url http www.dbase.com Knowledgebase beg migrate5to7 Migrate.HTM ref and with older DOS versions dBASE II, dBASE III, dBASE IV, and dBASE ... more details
lowercase title dBASE Mac Infobox Software name dBASE Mac logo screenshot Image Dbase mac box front.jpg 250px caption dBASE Mac 1.01 developer Ashton Tate latest release version 2.0 latest release date ... website dBASE Mac was a database management system for the Apple Macintosh , released by Ashton ... on dBASE Mac and instead port dBASEdBASE IV to the Mac, complete with a DOS like interface. History Genesis dBASE Mac started life at a 3rd party developer, DigiCorp , a small two person company in Salt ... versions of dBASE development early in 1985. Development resumed in May, referred to by the code ... for all versions of dBASE, using the Mac as a testing ground before releasing it on the PC as well, thereby replacing their now ageing dBASE core with a fully GUI hosted object oriented database . Apple ... and new features to ensure dBASE Mac would compete with what was shaping up to be a very competitive ... have shipped. Management decided to market it as dBASE Mac, even though it had nothing in common with its ... a product that was called dBASE only to find it didn t even work with the DOS version. In order to provide some commonality the system could use dBASE databases by building an additional external index ... the product because it did not interact directly with dBASE on the PC. sfn Raven 1987 p 11 Don Crabb s review in InfoWorld was succinct, noting that DBase Mac is not DBase for the Mac . sfn Crabb ... and return the tape in the time it took dBASE Mac to update records. sfn Raven 1987 p 11 A 1.01 ..., dBASEdBASE IV , to the Mac. ref Daniel Farber, http www.accessmylibrary.com article 1G1 8372688 t back basics mac.html A T back to basics with Mac dBASE IV , MacWEEK , 24 April 1990 ref 3rd party development Ashton Tate sold off the rights for dBASE Mac in June 1990 to a former dBASE Mac user who ... users. ref name norr Henry Norr, http www.accessmylibrary.com article 1G1 8690008 dbase mac enter new.html dBASE Mac to enter New Era , MacWEEK , 31 July 1990 ref New Era released an update in late ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 CDBF for Microsoft Windows is a Data Base File .dbf viewer and editor which allows both individuals and business group users access into dBASE dbf files directly without programming via the familiar Windows interface. It allows both for viewing and editing of memo fields in dBase III, dBase IV, FoxPro , Visual FoxPro and dBase Level 7 formats. External links http www.whitetown.com CDBF Homepage database software stub Category Database administration tools ... more details
s that derive from the original dBASE Ashton Tate programming language and database formats. These are sometimes informally known as dBASE clones . While there was a non commercial predecessor ... dBASE III release scripts written in the dBASE III dialect are most likely to run on all the clones. History of the X Ashton Tate always maintained that everything relating to dBASE was proprietary ... was to cause the clone vendors to avoid using the term dBASE a trademark term held by Ashton Tate. This gave rise to the creation of the generic term xBase meaning dBASE or dBASE like. A suggested ... By 1987 there were an increasing number of clone software products that mimicked dBASE. Each of these products ... very difficult to move code developed with one dBASE like product to run in another one. This was in contrast ... many cries for a standard for the dBASE programming language syntax, nothing would happen as long as Ashton Tate asserted ownership of all things dBASE. Once Borland acquired Ashton Tate in mid ... of Vulcan and dBASE II. The group met on a regular basis in a variety of locations over the next ... cross reference book before the term was coined , The dBASE Language Handbook , by David M. Kalman, which covered Quicksilver, Clipper, dbxl, dBASE III, dBASE III Plus, dBASE IV, and FoxBase . At more ... languages at that time dBASE III , dBASE IV, FoxPro for DOS, FoxPro for Windows, FoxPro for Macintosh ... because, as previously noted, Ashton Tate had earlier sold dBASE as well as the rest of their product ... QuickSilver to get a foot up the development ladder for a dBASE version for Windows then 3.1 . In 1994, Borland launched dBase V for Windows and dBASE V for DOS before selling the dBASE name and product line to http www.dbase.com dBASE Inc. In recent years there seems to be a renewed interest in xBase ... portal Vulcan.NET from GrafX Software dBase from dBASE Inc. DBFView , DBF editor viewer ... DBF Commander free version Historical versions Vulcan dBase predecessor DBIII Compiler QuickSilver ... more details
DBL may refer to Dansk biografisk leksikon , a Danish biographical dictionary Database Management Library , a C object oriented programming library dBASE Language, the computer language implemented by dBASE Plus, dB2K, and Visual dBASE software Devizes Branch Line , a defunct railway line running from Holt to Pewsey from 1857 to 1966. Digital Bibliography & Library Project s DBL Browser Dominet Bank Ekstraliga , Polish Basketball League Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah Don Bosco School, Liluah Double disambiguation Double , various meanings Drawing Black Lines , the second album by American Post Hardcore band, Project 86. Drexel Burnham Lambert , an investment bank Dutch Basketball League , the top professional basketball league in the Netherlands Dyirbal language , ISO 639 3 language code dbl See also Down by Law disambiguation disambig da DBL de DBL fr DBL it DBL ... more details
location country US location locations area served key people industry Software products dBASE ... software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application . Ashton Tate ... sold to Borland in September 1991. History The history of Ashton Tate and dBASE are intertwined and as such, must be discussed in parallel. Early History dBASE II 1981 1983 Ashton Tate was launched ... software in the world. The founders changed the name of Vulcan to dBASE II on the recommendation ... for dBASE. His idea was that naming the first release of the product II would imply that it was already ... key developers on dBASE II. In 1982 Perry Lawrence and Nelson Tso were the two developers ... shipments occurring by fall 1982 , the most popular microcomputer operating system was CP M. dBASE ... M market was fragmented, with many hardware companies and nascent channels. dBASE II was ported to the IBM ... promoting dBASE II for the IBM PC for months before it shipped. When dBASE II for the IBM PC shipped ... and sales in the US and internationally, caused dBASE II sales to grow rapidly. Turner expanded ... to translate dBASE II from English to non English versions. The early presence of dBASE II in international ... share for dBASE. At one point in 1983, the company s French distributor La Command Electronique whose owner was Hughes LeBlanc claimed that one in ten buyers of a PC in France is buying dBASE .... With the growing popularity of ever larger hard drives on personal computers, dBASE II turned out to be a huge seller. For its time, dBASE was extremely advanced. It was one of the first database products that ran on a microcomputer , and its programming environment the dBASE language allowed ... and storage at the time, dBASE nevertheless allowed a huge number of small to medium sized tasks to be automated. The value added resellers VARs who developed applications using dBASE became an important early sales channel for dBASE. By the end of the fiscal year ending in January 1982, the firm ... more details
web url http reddevnews.com qandas article.aspx?editorialsid 113 title Life After dBase Database pioneer sets sail on a new course. An interview with C. Wayne Ratliff, Creator of dBASE II first Doug ... more details
. Vulcan was renamed to dBase, the price was raised from 50 to 695, and the software quickly became ... copyrights used by FoxPro that were claimed to belong to Ashton Tate and the dBase product. On December 11, 1990, Judge Hatter issued an order invalidating Ashton Tate s copyrights in its own dBASE ... Hatter explained that Ashton Tate knew that the dBase program development was based on JPLDIS, and that fact ... dBase References Reflist refs ref name foxpro cite web title The History of Fox Pro work Fox Pro ... title dSTORY how I really developed dBASE. author of dBASE tells of the database management system ... month December 17 title Court ruling turns table on A T in dBASE battle. Ashton Tate s law suit against ... more details
FIL file may refer to In Audit Command Language ACL , a Table Data file. In Application Generator , a File Template. In dBASE Application Generator, a Files List Object file. In Mirror computing , a file containing a saved File Allocation Table FAT , created by some DOS mirror programs. An Overlay programming file. A Symbian Application Logo File, containing bitmap images used for application icons. disambig Category Computer file formats ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced October 2011 orphan February 2009 notability October 2011 Applications By Forms ABF is an early 4GL computer programming language provided by the Ingres database Ingres relational database . It provides an ASCII form painter, which automatically binds form fields to a database using ABF, a programming language, with embedded SQL , simplifying the task of making a Create, read, update and delete CRUD application for textual data. ABF source code is interpreted into a Third generation programming language 3GL language C programming language C or COBOL , which is then compiled so snippets of the native language may be directly embedded in the ABF code. ABF was deprecated by OpenROAD in the early nineties. Several other database vendors marketed comparable 4GL s at around the same time, such as IBM SystemBuilder Pick System Builder , Clipper programming language Clipper , and DBASE DBASE III . Category 4GL Category Proprietary database management systems prog lang stub ... more details
and early nineties. At that time, dBase and its xBase clones Visual FoxPro Foxpro , Clipper programming ... in contrast to dBase which had a command line interface with menus layered on top . Particularly ... Borland also started work on an internal dBASE clone for both DOS and Windows, written in assembler ... around Interbase. The acquisition also shifted focus. Paradox had historically competed against dBASE ... oriented market. After dBASE was acquired this was no longer desirable and emphasis shifted ... DOS, Paradox Windows, and dBase of around 799, which negatively impacted Borland more than any ... was painful, and even worse, the internal dBASE project at the center of the acquisition rationale ... need to develop the missing dBASE for Windows in a hurry. Borland lost the strength to fight the multiple ... since the company decided it would hold out for a replacement of dBASE, which eventually came out in 1994, too late for the company. To make matters worse, while the dBASE for DOS clones FoxBase and Clipper copied dBASE closely, the Windows versions of these products were developed without an existing dBASE for Windows model. One of dBASE for DOS s strengths was multi vendor support and this was lost in the various Windows xBase products. Borland s Visual dBASE for Windows couldn ... suite. dBASE for Windows came out too late to be a significant player in the Windows market, most dBASE programmers by then had migrated to Microsoft FoxBASE, a very similar database tool. Borland .... See also xBase dBase References Notes reflist External links http www.thedbcommunity.com Paradox ... more details
DBF may refer to dBASE filename extension Detection By Fire Divorced Black Female in personal ads dBf Decibel as referring to 1 femtowatt Drude Born Federov form of constitutive equations Distributed Bellman Ford a Distance vector routing protocol Danmarks Badminton Forbund Denmark s Badminton Union Diesel Boats Forever Diesel Boats Forever Design Build Fly aircraft design competition Oracle Database Oracle tablespace filename extension Distributed feedback laser a type of a laser Drunk Bitch Friday formerly a weekly bit on the Lex and Terry morning radio show. disambig de DBF eo DBF fr DBF it DBF sv DBF ... more details
DBT may refer to Danish Board of Technology, a technology assessment institution in Denmark DBT gene DBT Online Inc. a US data mining company .dbt, the extension of a DBase file format Design basis tornado within a Design basis accident of a nuclear facility Deutscher Bundestag , the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Germany Dialectical behavior therapy , a psychotherapy for psychiatric illnesses such as borderline personality disorder Dibenzothiophene , a chemical compound Dibutyltryptamine , a psychedelic drug Drive By Truckers , an alt country rock band disambig de DBT it DBT sr DBT ... more details
VDB is a three letter abbreviation and may refer to The IATA designator for Fagernes Airport, Leirin ENFG VDB dBase , abbreviated as VdB People Victor David Brenner , designer of a U.S. one cent coin Paul Vanden Boeynants Belgian prime minister Frank Vandenbroucke cyclist Other Vrijzinnig Democratische Bond , a Dutch political party Video Data Bank Virtual Database Van den Bergh catalogue , an astronomical catalogue Visual Database Voluntary Denied Boarding Verband der Bahnindustrie in Deutschland e.V. , the German railway industry association tt var db pkg tt , the installed package database in FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux disambig cs VDB de VDB fr VDB fy VDB it VDB nl VDB ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 WHATSIT? is a freeform Database management system database program that was available for the Apple II and the CP M operating system . It was developed by Lyall Morill Computer Headware in 1977. The name is an acronym for Wow How d All That Stuff get In There? . Morill improved WHATSIT? and Information Unlimited Software IUS introduced the program at the second West Coast Computer Faire in the spring of 1978. References http books.google.com books?id FLabRYnGrOcC http www.retroarchive.org cpm dbase dbase.htm http mbinfo.mbdesign.net 1976 80.htm database software stub Category Proprietary database management systems ... more details
Expand Latvian date December 2008 Linards Tauns Linards Tauns born Arnolds Mikus B rzs B rzi October 13, 1922 July 30, 1963 was a Latvia n writer. References translation ref lv Linards Tauns External links http www.literature.lv lv dbase autors.php?id 63 Latvian Encyclopedia of Literature Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tauns, Linards ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1922 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1963 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tauns, Linards Category 1922 births Category 1963 deaths Category Latvian writers Latvia writer stub lv Linards Tauns ... more details
Festival of Praise FOP is a Christian Praise and Worship concert started in 1986, attended by various churches in Singapore . ref cite web url http sg.christianpost.com dbase culture 1325 section 1.htm title Festival of Praise Highlights Youth Potential in Christ & 124 The Christian Post Singapore publisher Sg.christianpost.com date 2010 08 02 accessdate 2010 09 10 ref It is held annually at the Singapore Indoor Stadium . ref cite web url http www.citynews.sg index.php 2010 07 festival of praise 2010 youths can make a difference title Festival of Praise 2010 Youths can make a difference CityNews publisher Citynews.sg date 2010 07 31 accessdate 2010 09 10 ref Committee Founder President Rev. Dr. Canon James Wong ref cite web url http sg.christianpost.com dbase ministries 1129 section 1.htm title Interview Canon James Wong, Founder of Festival of Praise & 124 The Christian Post Singapore publisher Sg.christianpost.com date 2008 08 04 accessdate 2010 09 10 ref Vice President Rev. Chia Beng Hock Executive Director Kong Hee Rev. Dr. Kong Hee Treasurer Pastor Ezekiel Tan ref Taken from Festival of Praise Magazine 2008 ref Secretary John Suan ref Taken from 20th Festival of Praise Magazine ref Notable Attendees 1999 David Yonggi Cho Rev. David Yonggi Cho 2005 Delirious? , Hillsong 2006 Ed Silvoso Rev. Dr. Ed Silvoso , Don Moen singer Don Moen , Christian City Church 2007 Phil Pringle Rev. Dr. Phil Pringle , Don Moen singer Don Moen , Delirious? 2008 Mark Conner Rev. Mark Conner , Reuben Morgan , Parachute Band The Parachute Band 2009 Mark Conner Rev. Mark Conner , Bob Fitts , True Worshippers 2010 Planetshakers , Rev. Dr. Che Ahn , Don Moen singer Don Moen 2011 John Bevere , New Life band, Andrew Yeo References reflist External links http www.festivalofpraise.org.sg Festival of Praise Website http www.facebook.com festivalofpraise Festival of Praise Facebook Group Category Christianity in Singapore Category Music festivals in Singapore Christian org stub ... more details
Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Lindner symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer G. Lehmann and J. Kandler discovery site Volkssternwarte Drebach discovered September 5, 1999 designations yes mp name 21678 alt names 1999 RK27 mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 2.9317350 perihelion 2.1613964 semimajor eccentricity 0.1512505 period 1484.3310306 avg speed inclination 7.60764 asc node 162.40828 mean anomaly 30.60388 arg peri 213.51863 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 14.4 21678 Lindner 1999 RK27 is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1999 by G. Lehmann and J. Kandler at Volkssternwarte Drebach . ref name dbase cite web url http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 21678 Lindner title 21678 Lindner 1999 RK27 accessdate 30 May 2011 ref The asteroid is named for the Germany German elementary school teacher and author Klaus Lindner. ref name dbase References Reflist External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 21678 Lindner JPL Small Body Database Browser on 21678 Lindner DEFAULTSORT Lindner Category Main Belt asteroids Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1999 beltasteroid stub fa it 21678 Lindner pl 21678 Lindner pt 21678 Lindner uk 21678 vi 21678 Lindner yo 21678 Lindner ... more details
The R BASE System is a relational database management system for DOS and Microsoft Windows Windows from R BASE Technologies , Inc., Murrysville, PA. It provides a complete programming language as well as an application generator for developing programs. Options include Oterro software, which provides connectivity from any ODBC compliant application to R Base R BASE , and R Tango Web Solution Suite, which provides Web connectivity to R BASE. Introduced in 1981 and originally developed by Microrim of Bellevue, WA, R BASE was the first DBMS to compete with dBASE II , the leading personal computer DBMS of that era. R BASE was acquired by R BASE Technologies in 1998. update date November 2010 As of April 2006, the R BASE system is at version 7.5. References FOLDOC http www.rbase.com RBASE homepage DEFAULTSORT R Base System Category Query languages compu lang stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 SnapAccounting was a commercial software package for the Personal computer PC written by Joe Schoemann Computers ref http www.cylex.co.za company joe schoemann computers cc 15479452.html ref in Johannesburg , South Africa in the early 1980 s. It was written in dBase 3 and compiled with Clipper Clipper programming language . It had a DOS .bat file installation program that used the Company s Name as a security against software piracy , which was rampant in South Africa in the 1980s. ref http dosfan.lib.uic.edu ERC economics trade reports 1994 SouthAfrica.html ref gallery Image SnapAccounting.png SnapAccounting serial number gallery SnapAccounting was one of the earliest turnkey accounting packages available in South Africa. ref http wiki.answers.com Q What is SnapAccounting ref There were SnapAccounting modules for Debtors , Creditors and General Accounting. A Stock module was added later. Special customized version existed for Automobile repair shop garages and butchers that integrated all 4 packages and included a Balance Sheet module. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Snapaccounting Category Accounting software Category Companies based in Johannesburg ... more details
2010 ref A new site was sought at Goutum. ref name History cite web url http www.molens.nl dbase ... web url http www.molens.nl dbase molen.php?&molenid 1106 title Informatie publisher De Hollandsche ... more details
type hybridizing the concepts of dBase Macro computer science Macro languages macros , or string computer ..., like DBASE DBF , DBTNTX, DBFCDX Visual FoxPro FoxPro , Apollo and Comix , MachSix SIx Driver and Apollo ... dBase xBase syntax, while also offering OOP approaches and target based syntax such as tt SQLExecute ... Corporation the seasonal versions , billed as dBase compilers Nantucket Clipper Winter 84 released ... more details
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