THANK YOU Insights PSQL Edition Readers!

Pervasive wants to say "Thanks" to all of our loyal readers of the PSQL Edition of Insights. That's why, starting October 24th and continuing through November 12th, 2006, we will be holding a daily drawing for a $50 gift card to Amazon.com.

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Pervasive.SQL V8 End-of-Support

End-of-Support for Pervasive.SQL V8 is quickly approaching! The End-of-Support date is December 31, 2006.

What does this mean to me?

Contact your Pervasive account manager or local sales representative to upgrade to the latest version of Pervasive PSQL and continue to enjoy industry-leading performance from your database solution.

For more information and to be directed to the Product Life Cycle page for all Pervasive products, click here.

PSQL Radio: Five Billion and Counting...How Many Did You Add This Year?

COBOL has been around forever! In fact, rumor has it that Ben Franklin wrote a COBOL-based application to discover electricity! All kidding aside, many businesses across all industries have relied on COBOL as their back-end architecture. Did you know that 5 billion new lines of COBOL are developed every year?

In this month's PSQL Radio edition Product Manager Jim Beecher provides some tips and information on how easy it is to migrate your existing COBOL applications to the Pervasive PSQL database. Have a listen.
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Product Announcements – Updated Code Snippets and PDAC for Delphi
Now AVAILABLE!

Pervasive is constantly striving to provide our customers with the latest and greatest tools and functionality to make your job easier. We are dedicated to providing improved technology, new product offerings, excellent service levels and support.
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Advanced Management Systems Eases Transition with Pervasive PSQL

Advanced Management Systems (AMS) is the premier provider of wine industry information systems. When HP announced plans to discontinue sales and support of the HP e3000 platform, AMS had to make an important decision. With an application that has more than 1.5 million lines of COBOL code, AMS turned to Pervasive Software for help.
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Meet the Low-Cost Expert at High-Performance Databases

A large class of database users exists that is distinct and different from the traditional large enterprise database customer. These "Low-IT" organizations, users that aim primarily to minimize both the cost and the complexity of IT, are more often than not, seeking a database solution that can be entirely managed by non-technical personnel on their off hours. In the following study, Infostructure Associates examines Pervasive PSQL v9 and explains why it is a great fit for small and medium enterprises in today's economy.
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Database Migration for COBOL Applications – Is It Worth It?

As computer systems and applications have proliferated in the past several decades, they have left behind a collection of disparate data management technologies. This has led many to question if an existing data store is still the ideal storage format. However, once the possibility of migration has been mentioned, many organizations find it difficult moving forward. They realize their current solution may be less than optimal, but without a defined process to follow and a distinct solution towards which to strive, their efforts are often in vain and result in a less than perfect outcome.
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How to Administrate Pervasive PSQL Through Terminal Services

Microsoft Terminal Services (TS) is a multi-session environment that provides remote computers access to Windows-based programs running on a server. Citrix MetaFrame extends the Windows Terminal Services with additional client and server functionality.

When referring to product documentation it mentions that you cannot use Pervasive Control Center (PCC) through a terminal session to configure a remote database engine. You must use PCC at the terminal server console or through a standard remote connection to configure the database engine on the terminal server machine.
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