Introduction to PowerBuilder

Introduction

PowerBuilder 5.0 ships with Adaptive Server Anywhere (formerly Watcom database), a database engine. All the example applications that are shipped with PowerBuilder make use of the databases created in Adaptive Server Anywhere. PowerBuilder can talk to different data sources, i.e.

• Relational Databases, such as Sybase SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Adaptive Server Anywhere (Watcom), etc.
• Databases such as FoxPro tables.
• Other sources such as Text Files, Excel Spreadsheets, etc.

The reason Powersoft ships Adaptive Server Anywhere along with PowerBuilder at free of cost is, Adaptive Server Anywhere has a small foot print. Which means that it needs less resources and works on your desktop. So you can develop applications by connecting to a database created in Adaptive Server Anywhere. Once completed, you can port it to other data sources with minimal effort.

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