To minimize the cost of deploying database applications, you must match the database management systems features to the applications requirements. Using a complex enterprise database management system for embedded or distributed database applications results in unnecessary licensing, training, development, deployment, administration and support costs. Advantage Database Server (ADS) is designed for use in embedded and distributed systems so it requires no routine maintenance or support. The first year total cost of ADS is less than 10% of the cost for Microsoft SQL Server. The disk footprint of ADS is 1/50th of SQL Servers yet ADS provides all the features you need. Learn more here.

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The Advantage team is proud to offer training courses through an Online Seminar series that address specific features and functionality of Advantage Database Server.
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The Advantage team is proud to offer training courses through an Online Seminar series that address specific features and functionality of Advantage Database Server.
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The Advantage Database Server is a high-performance, relational database server that simultaneously supports optimized set-based SQL, as well as a blinding-fast, index-based navigational model. Its low per-seat cost, ease of deployment, and low maintenance requirements makes it well suited for vertical market applications, especially those where the deployed sites lack the IT infrastructure required to maintain normal database servers.

Summary: This whitepaper dives into the details about Advantage Database Server 9. The features and enhancements in this release are covered in detail. The highlights include:

• Enhanced FoxPro Support: Advantage 9 will support the Visual FoxPro 9 file format.
• 64-bit Windows and Linux Servers: The Advantage Database Server was ported to run as a native 64-bit application on the x64 versions of Windows and Linux.
• SQL Debugger: A visual SQL debugger has been added to the Advantage Data Architect, allowing developers to debug SQL scripts, stored procedures, triggers, and user defined functions.
• Event Notifications: Event notifications are a mechanism that allows an action at the server to proactively notify clients that an event they are interested in has occurred.
• New Default User Groups: admin, public, debug, backup TDataSet Descendant Version Switching Utility Optimized Replication Functionality Replication Enhancements
• And more

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As an application provider — ISV, OEM, VAR — your continued growth and profitability depend on bringing your products to market faster and more cost-effectively. Your reputation depends on customers being able to deploy your application right out of the box, quickly and easily to begin producing positive business results.

Industry analysts, veteran developers and other software industry experts agree that the best way to address these requirements is to devote your internal resources to core application development tasks and competencies, while dealing with your data management requirements by embedding a proven, high-performance, full-featured data management system. This whitepaper discusses the benefits of Advantage Database Server for application developers. Download Now!

This online seminar provides a brief overview of Advantage Database Server for developers new to the product. It introduces Advantage and discusses the various installation options including supported operating systems. Anyone looking for a way to modernize legacy data or easily migrate to a more cost-effective database without sacrificing functionality will benefit from this seminar.

The seminar covers many of the supported features included with Advantage and provides additional detail about the developer specific functionality including:

The Transaction Processing System

Stored Procedure implementation

Trigger implementation

SQL support including User Defined Functions

Referential integrity including constraints

Data encryption

Users and group management

Advantage high availability features

And more
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Scancode Systems provides an integrated suite of carrier-compliant shipping system software tools for managing supply-chain distribution, inventory and logistics management. Holding and managing millions of data records on a central server, Advantage Database Server frees local networks and individual workstations. Critical information flows faster, and in nearly all cases, system crashes and data corruption or loss are eliminated. Download Now!

Advantage Database Server is specifically designed to meet the needs of business application developers, allowing them to easily deploy robust applications with complete control of data integrity, multi-user concurrency and data security. Advantage is unique among the Sybase database offerings in that it provides both Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) table-based and SQL-based data access, providing a growth path for legacy database applications to todays modern techniques.

Of course, the best way to determine if Advantage Database Server can power your success is to try it for yourself. Download a 30-day Advantage Database Server trial. There's no risk to you. All you have to lose are your application development headaches. Download Now!