Alpha Five is a business application development and run-time
environment historically targeted at the dBase market. Times have
changed, and Alpha Software has been retooling in recent years to
support SQL databases with the same ease of use and power that it
brought to the dBase market so many years ago.
This article will discuss some of the goals, issues and
architecture behind Alpha Five’s support for SQL databases. Example
scripts, written in Alpha Five’s Xbasic dialect of BASIC will
demonstrate how users experience the programming interface.
Note: This article assumes a basic knowledge of SQL Data
Manipulation Language (DML) and Data Definition Language (DDL) and
the ability to read simple code examples written in Xbasic.
Alpha Software is committed to creating world class development
tools to make creating business applications for the web and for
the desktop easy, fast, and cost effective. The architecture we
have discussed is part of a rich set of tools that will continue to
evolve by pushing the level of functionality to higher and higher
levels of abstraction.
