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TurboDB Workbench

tdbwkb is a small text-based free-ware tool for managing TurboDB tables. It is currently available for Windows platforms and will be offered for Linux in 9/2000. You can download it at http://www.dataweb.de/turbodb.htm. tdbwkb offers commands for

Running tdbwkb will show the copyright and the tdbwkb prompt where you can enter the different commands. Enter help to show a list of available commands.

Here is a sample tdbwkb session to illustrate the available features. Lines starting with .. are comments explaining the following lines.

dataWeb Turbo Database Workbench Version 1.0
Copyright (c) 2000 dataWeb GmbH, Aicha, Germany
Homepage http://www.dataweb.de, Mail info@dataweb.de
Type 'help' to get a list of available commands.
tdbwkb> help
  Abbreviations are not allowed. The commands are:
  altertable    Modifies an existing table.
  bye           Ends the tdbwkb session.
  cd            Changes the current directory.
  debug         Toggles debug mode.
  delindex      Deletes an index from a table.
  deltable      Deletes all files of a table.
  help          Prints this list of commands.
  newindex      Creates a new index for a table.
  newtable      Creates a new TurboDB table.
  pwd           Prints current working directory.
  repair        Rebuilds a table and all its indexes.
  tableinfo     Shows the description of a table.
  Type help <cmd> to get more specific help for a command.
tdbwkb> newtable animals S40Name,A'Land,Water,Air'Area,PImage,MDescription,N'Name'RecordId
Creating table animals.dat with these columns:
  1 S40  Name
  2 A    Area, Values = Land,Water,Air
  3 P    Image
  4 M    Description
  5 N    RecordId
tdbwkb> tableinfo animals
Retrieving structure of table animals.dat...
Table columns:
  1 S40  Name
  2 A    Area, Values = Land,Water,Air
  3 P    Image
  4 M    Description
  5 N    RecordId
Indexes:
animals.inr                   RecordId:4
animals.id                    Name:40
tdbwkb> altertable animals n2=S40Family
Restructuring table animals.dat to these columns:
  1 S40  Name
  2 S40  Family
  3 A    Area, Values = Land,Water,Air
  4 P    Image
  5 M    Description
  6 N    RecordId
tdbwkb> newindex animals byfamily Family,Name
tdbwkb> tableinfo animals
Retrieving structure of table animals.dat...
Table columns:
  1 S40  Name
  2 S40  Family
  3 A    Area, Values = Land,Water,Air
  4 P    Image
  5 M    Description
  6 N    RecordId
Indexes:
animals.inr                   RecordId:4
animals.id                    Name:40
byfamily.ind                  Family:40, Name:40

TurboDB Data Exchange

Another text-based free-ware tool that reads and writes data from and to TurboDB tables. Formats supported by tdbdex are Text, dBase, TurboDB, XML and ODBC (Windows only). You can download it at http://www.dataweb.de/download/tdbcomponents.html. The Linux version will be available in 9/2000.

dataWeb Builder

dataWeb Builder is a fully-featured RAD tool for Web applications. It integrates a visual template designer for dynamic Web pages, a project manager, a scripting language and TurboDB for database access. dWB creates applications for the dataWeb application server which can be run on almost every Windows Web server without any special configuration (ISAPI). The features are:

More information on dataWeb Builder can be found at http://www.dataweb.de/datawebbuildere.htm.

Visual Data Publisher

This is our tool for creating Windows client applications for Turbo Database. Using Visual Data Publisher you create forms and reports for interactive applications and printing. Visual Data Publisher enables you to create customized executables with your own name, splash screen, menus and toolbars in a couple of hours. For users of dataWeb Builder Visual Data Publisher is the tool of choice for offline data management and reporting. Users of TurboDB Components can manage their TurboDB database very quickly, enter or modify data and print all kind of reports.

More information on Visual Data Publisher can be found at http://www.dataweb.de/vdp.htm.

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Last updated on 6/2/2000. Copyright (c) 2000 by dataWeb GmbH, Aicha, Germany. Turbo Database and TurboDB Components are products by dataWeb - the manufacturers of RAD tools for the Web. Please send your hints, questions and comments to Peter Pohmann.