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How do I open my Electronic Download Edition? |
| A. | Version 8: Click here to find out. |
| Q. | What's a database? |
| A. | Click here to find out. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
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