Advantage Database Server was first released in August 1993 and has had a long history over its 25-year history. What started out as DBXcellerator a product for increasing the performance of Clipper Applications evolved into a full relational databas...
The OEM HANA Cloud Platform Leadership Forum was a great success. The event was held in conjunction with SAP TechEd Las Vegas, bringing together current partners, new potential partners, SAP executives and SAP HCP product specialists. The forum was ...
Digital Transformation is a topic that almost every company is thinking about and many are actively working on digital transformation initiatives. In response to this SAP introduced the Digital Enterprise Platform (DEP), see below, to provide our cus...
I am currently working on several How To articles for Advantage. I have posted the first one How To: Troubleshoot an Advantage Connection Issue. I am working on several more on various topics. Here are some of my ideas so far. Setup Replication Con...
Last week I did a webcast with the help from other members of the Advantage team. During the webcast I discussed some of the new items included in version 11.1, using Advantage on a Amazon EC2 image and using the Advantage Web Administrator.The webca...
Doug, I think this is because DATE is a SQL keyword. You need to use double quotes ( " ) around date. You can also use square brackets ( [ ] ) to ensure that the field name is identified correctly. It could be the formatting of your date. By defau...
Oskar, The wait for event call you described above is not a polling mechanism. However, it does tie up a thread waiting for the notification from the server. Our recommended best practice is to create a second thread to wait for events. An example ...
Dustin, By default the Advantage client will cache all connection (6000 class) errors. This was done so applications that made multiple connections would not waste a lot of time retrying connections. The default behavior can be changed by adding RET...
Eugeni, Let's say you want to pack a table called Customers that is currently in use. To do this in ARC you would open two SQL windows. In the first window you would setup an event listener by running the following SQL Statements.EXECUTE PROCEDURE s...
Eugeni, In order for an online pack operation to complete all users must close the table. All of our online table maintenance functions have associated events that you can receive. The event for online pack is OPFinalStage_<tablename>. This event ...
