| Q. |
How do I open my
Electronic Download Edition? |
| A. |
Version 8: Click here
to find out. |
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| Q. |
What's
a database? |
| A. |
Click
here to find out. |
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| Q. |
Is
Alpha Five a "flat" database or a "relational"
database? |
| A. |
Alpha
Five is a "relational" database. The individual
tables are connected by Sets.
Click here
for more info. |
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| Q. |
Why
should I use Alpha Five instead of Microsoft Access? |
| A. |
-
Frances Peake, professional database designer,
says |
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"I
develop applications in both and I tell you that you
can go so much farther in Alpha Five without having
to do programming. In fact, you may not have to do
any coding at all. Alpha Five offers a lot of commands
and properties that simply do not exist in Access,
where you would have to write your own procedures
and functions to do the same thing." |
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"Even
when you need to automate a process, Alpha Five has
a number of alternatives to writing code, such as the
"Script Recorder" that lets you perform the
steps you want to automate and generates the code for
you. There are, of course some things that you might
dream up that will require writing code in Alpha Five." |
