Archive for December, 2009

How do I re-enable the login dialog?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Question

When I first launch our application, a dialog asks me for the database/password.  I clicked the box to save these results and not prompt the next time.

How do I get it to prompt me again?

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Technical FAQ – Btrieve – Microsoft SQL Server

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This post is a “living” document – it will be added to over time to provide everything you need to know about administering the Microsoft SQL server to host Btrieve data.
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Technical FAQ – Btrieve – Oracle

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This post is a “living” document – it will be added to over time to provide everything you need to know about administering the Oracle server to host Btrieve data.
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Testing Btrieve and SQL side by side

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

The Task

In the initial phases of your evaluation of the Mertech SQL solution, you probably want to compare and contrast your application running against Btrieve and against SQL. Perhaps you want to compare dialogs or reports to ensure the data is all looking the same; or you may want to compare speed.

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