Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the Update Statistics operation?

2. What locking levels are provided by DBMaker?

3. Which security class does DBMaker support?

4. What are DBMaker's multimedia capabilities?

5. What tools can be used to develop DBMaker application programs?

6. Does ODBC cause lower performance?

7. How do I install DBMaker for Windows or Unix/Linux?

8. Which platforms does DBMaker support?

9. What are the requirements to install DBMaker?

10. What is the Update Statistics operation?

11. What should I do when I insert a record and find that the database is full?

12. Why did I get the error message "cannot connect to server" when I tried to connect to the database server?

13. How are primary key integrity and foreign key integrity enforced?

14. How to create a new database?

15. How do I transfer data from another database to DBMaker? Are there software utilities that can be used to transfer data?

16. Do I need to modify AP when moving a database server to another machine (UNIX to Windows, or Windows to UNIX)?

17. When a client tries to connect to a database, the message "Can not connect to server" appears. Why?

18. How do I move a table to another database?

19. What are the considerations for selecting the lock granularity level?

20. How to transfer data from mysql to DBMaker?

21. How do I lock a table during run-time?

22. How do I port a database from Windows to UNIX platform?

23. Can I grant privileges on individual column in DBMaker?

24. Can we change the data type of a column from integer to float?

25. Can DBMaker execute the data update operation when using View?

26. What column data types are available in DBMaker?

27. What is View? Why should I use it?

28. How do I modify a column name?

29. How do I drop duplicate data from a table?

30. How do I compare new data with old data to find differences?

31. How do I perform specific searches on data, such as: find the students whose grades are in the top 30% of a class?

32. How do I read data without locking the data?

33. What is Dirty Read and how is it used?

34. How do I use front-end development tools to connect to a DBMaker database?

35. How do I connect to DBMaker using Delphi?

36. How do I connect to DBMaker using Visual Basic?

37. How do I open a Table directly from an application program?

38. How do I know if a specific table does not exist in a DBMaker Database?

39. What does the error message "Invalid host element" mean?

40. How do I connect to DBMaker using Borland C++ 5.02?

41. Where is the DBMaker configuration file located?

42. Are the names of the table and columns case sensitive?

43. How many records can DBMaker store?

44. What is the maximum number of columns that a table can have in DBMaker?

45. What are the limits on data elements within DBMaker?