Walter & Team, I'm sure you're going to get flooded with posts now, because there is quite a lot of passion about the Multi-value database model, and you'll find this community extremely helpful. I am so glad y'all are considering an MV based app.
Installing PE UV was an excellent start. For your staff to look around and start creating some files [read Tables] you ought to buy a copy of "How To Access", by Harvey Rodstein. Talk to Monica at International Spectrum and she will send you the electronic version, just released. http://www.intl-spectrum.com Here is a link to some on-line publications: http://www.jes.com/olbooks.html Especially helpful to your programmers would be Jonathan Sisk's Programmer's Guide. This would be your starting point to understand the UV-Basic language, and how to play with multi-values ("nested tables" in Oracle [8 or later] lingo). If you want to see a pretty exhaustive list of all books ever written on the subject, go to: http://www.jes.com/picklist.html This list has not been updated in recent years, I don't think, so there may be additions. The best news about your initial steps, is that whatever you learn from Harv's book, or commands you pick up by even gleaning non-UniVerse publications - will work on UV. There are many nuances of the various 'flavors' of the MV db model, but only worry about that when you get alot deeper. Only when your programmers get seasoned and begin to leverage the UV nuances do you need to worry with that. If you can navigate one MV database, you can navigate them all. If you want to see something about the [sometimes spicey] history of the MV model, go to: http://www.tincat-group.com/mv/familytree.html BTW - [in somewhat hushed tone] this all started as something called "Pick" but everyone around here prefers to speak of either Multi-value industry or the U2 (standing for UniData and UniVerse, both now owned by IBM but have divergent genealogy). Pick is now D3 and well .... let some other folks check in now. Hope you have fun. MV is a blast. R. Baker Hughes UniVerse Programming Mouser Electronics, Inc. >I have 23 and 28 year old programers that will have to live with this solution >for the next 20 years. They're bright, but in order to get them excited about >this platform I need to let them experiment. >Any website pointers will be appreciated. >Walter Vaughan ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
