Using the ODBC Driver Manager Trace tool – PB Docs 110
Using the ODBC Driver Manager Trace tool This section describes how to use the ODBC Driver Manager Trace tool. About ODBC Driver Manager Trace You can use the ODBC Driver Manager Trace tool to trace a connection to any ODBC data source that you access in PowerBuilder through the ODBC interface. Unlike the Database Trace…
Supported Informix datatypes – PB Docs 110
Supported Informix datatypes The Informix database interfaces support the Informix datatypes listed in Table 8-1 in DataWindow objects and embedded SQL. Table 8-1: Supported datatypes for Informix Blob LVarChar Boolean Money Byte (a maximum of 2^31 bytes) NChar Char NVarChar Clob Real Date Serial DateTime Serial8 Decimal SmallInt (2 bytes) Float Text (a maximum of…
Sybase SQL Anywhere – PB Docs 110
Sybase SQL Anywhere This section describes how to prepare and define a Sybase SQL Anywhere data source in order to connect to it using the SQL Anywhere ODBC driver. Name change For versions 6 through 9, the SQL Anywhere database server was called Adaptive Server® Anywhere (ASA). SQL Anywhere includes two database servers—a personal database…
About ADO.NET – PB Docs 110
About ADO.NET ADO.NET is a set of technologies that provides native access to data in the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is designed to support an n-tier programming environment and to handle a disconnected data architecture. ADO.NET is tightly integrated with XML and uses a common data representation that can combine data from disparate sources, including…
Modifying a DataWindow object – PB Docs 110
Modifying a DataWindow object During execution, you can modify the appearance and behavior of a DataWindow object by doing one of the following: Changing the values of its properties Adding or deleting controls from the DataWindow object Changing property values You can use the Modify method or a property expression to set property values. This…
Chapter 2 Using DataWindow Objects – PB Docs 110
Chapter 2 Using DataWindow Objects About this chapter This chapter describes how to use DataWindow objects in an application. Contents Topic About using DataWindow objects Putting a DataWindow object into a control Accessing the database Accessing a Web service data source Importing data from an external source Manipulating data in a DataWindow control Accessing the…
Using a custom DataStore object – PB Docs 110
Using a custom DataStore object This section describes how to extend a DataStore in PowerBuilder by creating a user object. You might want to use a custom version of the DataStore object that performs specialized processing. To define a custom DataStore, you use the User Object painter. There you specify the DataWindow object for the…
About PowerDesigner and the PowerDesigner plug-in – PB Docs 110
About PowerDesigner and the PowerDesigner plug-in About PowerDesigner PowerDesigner is a data modeling tool that supports several types of models and many programming languages. The following modules are available for data modeling in PowerDesigner: Conceptual Data Model (CDM) to model the overall logical structure of a data application, independent of any software or data storage…
OrcaScript Commands – PB Docs 110
OrcaScript Commands OrcaScript commands are not case sensitive. The generic command parameters can include only strings delimited by quotation marks, or predefined variables and constants without quotation marks. White space is used to separate multiple parameters for a single command. Any place a string is expected, a name that has been previously defined (set) in…
Analyzing trace information using profiling tools – PB Docs 110
Analyzing trace information using profiling tools After you have created a trace file, the easiest way to analyze it is to use the profiling tools provided on the Tool tab of the New dialog box. There are three tools: The Profiling Class View shows information about the objects that were used in the application The…