Update to Active Python Database Modules

While I have been on hiatus during this summer, Active State have not.

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Rocket Software Latest Newsletter

Rocket Software, the owners of the U2 products have just issued their latest newsletter with some interesting bits and pieces.

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New release of Cedarville Download

To my surprise, the data extraction reporting tool from Cedarville University for the U2 product range has a new release – version 7.40!

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Multivalues in Oracle?

While trolling the internet (yet again) I stumbled across these series of articles/bog entries about using Oracle with multivalue data.

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Code Documentation

I think that everyone at some point in time has attempted to dodge the drudgery of documentation.

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Python to InterCall

One of the API’s provided by the U2 range of products within the UniDK  is InterCall. This package provides access to U2 data and the ability to execute commands, including UniBasic programs in a non-SQL manner.

It is also possible to use InterCall within Python.

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ActiveState Python Libraries

ActiveState has recently released a couple of new specialized libraries for their version of python.

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MS-Access 2010

The new version of Microsoft’s Office has been released, and there are a couple of interesting new features within the MS-Access database product

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Is UniVerse non-relational?

This morning, I received an email summary of my linked-in activities. One of the network activities was Susan Joslyn comment that U2 had been added to the non-sqldatabases.org website.

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MS-Access and multivalued data

Yes, Microsoft’s access database does multivalues. Well, sort of.

Multivalues are only available within MS-Access 2007 and beyond and it is really all to do with MS-Sharepoint; the ability to link or select from a sharepoint field.
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