Advantage Primer Tutorial
Welcome to the Advantage (Database Server) Primer Tutorial … or APT for short, because it is apt, and not because I cut and paste a lot.
Advantage Database Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) for small to medium sized businesses by Sybase iAnywhere. Database author Cary Jensen describes Advantage as follows: “Advantage has been around since 1993, when it was introduced to provide a stable solution for Clipper developers who were tired of slow performance and corrupt indexes inherent to file server-based databases. Over the years, ADS has grown in both popularity and features. Advantage is now a mature product with an impressive collection of features that rival many of the more expensive and complicated database servers”.[1]
“In short, the Advantage Database Server is a high-performance, low-maintenance, remote database server that permits you to easily build and deploy client/server applications and web-based applications”.[2]
Advantage Database Server is an excellent database to use and its SQL is an excellent tool to learn and use in conjunction with the Visual Studio suite of Visual C# and VB.Net, where its integration is quite good.
Its database structure is easy to follow with individual Windows files for each table’s contents and a separate individual file for a table’s index data. This is a fairly big difference in architecture to MS-SQL.
In the primer tutorial you can see the Advantage Data Architect program in use after a successful install. Want to direct you towards some useful links below.
Link to Advantage Database Server more information … via Wikipedia, from where quote above came.
Link to Advantage Database Server download page … via Sybase.
Link to Advantage Database Server installation advice page … via Sybase.
Link to Advantage Database Server (developer) home at Sybase (a SAP company) … via Sybase (a SAP company).
Link to Advantage Database Server jobs done … Advantage Database Server jobs done … some of personal experience.
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