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a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

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    a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

    What does this mean?
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    RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

    we expect to release v4.5 next week.

    all registered users will recieve email notification from alpha giving the url where they can place their orders.

    we will also place an announcement on the message board with the url where you can place your order for v4.5.

    the cost of the V4.5 upgrade is $79 for a single user license, $199 for 3 -user license, $299 for 5-user license, and $199 for Runtime.

    the cost of the V4.5 ugprade can be offset in FULL against the V5 upgrade later this year.

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      #3
      RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

      Selwyn,

      My notes from the conference aren't clear. Could you post a short list of the improvements and changes in 4.5?

      I have lots of info on V5 and V6, but I didn't make any notes on 4.5.

      Thanks,

      Stan
      There can be only one.

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        RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

        The main feature of V4.5 is that we have take the improvements made to the Alpha Five engine for V5 and brought them back to the V4 platform. These improvements result in vastly improved index stability. This should result in elimiation (or pretty close to that) of "Unable to add key to tag" and "Heap lock" error messages. Indexes are now also "self correcting" - a5 checks index ingtegrity and fixes if necessary. Checking an intact index is done with no noticable impact on performance. The net result is much more robust applications.

        Improved management of Windows resources - no more running out of windows resources, for example, as you cycle between desing and run modes.

        Improved performance for global updates, posting etc. when the target table has a lot of calculated fields.

        Improved performance in loading forms with lots of calc fields (especially calcs involving lookup() functions)

        Improved multi-user performance. The algorithms for file locking have been improved. Net result should be fewer "Unable to lock" error messages.

        Improved memory management will mean that some scripts that slowed down as they ran will now perform better.

        and some others miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

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          #5
          RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

          Thanks
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

            >>later this year
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

             [email protected]
            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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              #7
              RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

              Selwyn,
              Has the release date for V5 been revised?

              Russ

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                #8
                RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                The answer is "yes" but no date is projected. My email from Selwyn indicated it will be in o1 but he didn't want to set a projected date and have to change it. I suspect there is so much he wants to include and he definately doesn't want any more bugs than necessary. I'm willing to wait and no doubt 4.5 will be a boost.

                kenn
                TYVM :) kenn

                Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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                  #9
                  RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                  I hope v4.5 is more stable than v4, index's have be a real problem.

                  Nick

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                    RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                    They should be.

                    We have run some incredible "torture" tests here at Alpha using this engine. We have had multiple workstations running simultaneously against the same table. Each workstation runs a script that adds random data to the shared table. The scripts add records hundreds of times faster than a human operator could. In these tests, the indexes have remained intact, regardless of how long we run the test for. We have added millions of record to the sample tables without index corruptions.

                    No doubt you will tell us if you agree that V4.5 is more stable.

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                      RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                      Selwyn,

                      That is great news for all of us. Did you run the same test on the old engine and get lots of corruption? Were there lots of filters in the indexes of the testing table? Was there any deleting and marking taking place during the multi-user testing? If there was, did any of the filters include marked or unmarked records only? Alpha makes such incredible use of indexes in so many places (sets -field rules - query optimazation -lookup functions). I believe that these indexes ( with filters ) separate Alpha from Access and other relational database development tools.
                      Looking forward to purchasing a54_5 for myself and my clients.

                      John

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                        #12
                        RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                        Yes, our "torture" tests did involve filtered indexes, and also tested deletes, and yes V4.0 failed our torture test, while V4.5 passes.

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                          RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                          Selwyn,

                          what about support of European numbering system - numeric fields in ver 4.5 - or shd I wait for ver 5.0 - will it be solved in ver 5.0 at all ?
                          In Ver 4.03 it doesn't work in European way and the solution is not just to say to the users 'use the American format and that's it.
                          Again I found out if I hv a numeric field in a lookup table and want to use the lookup numeric field in the current table, it is again multiplied by 100 - why ?

                          Ales

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                            #14
                            RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                            Stablilty is a major issue. I'm excited about the future possibilities.

                            Nick

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                              #15
                              RE: a5 v 4.5 beta (which has just gone gold!!)

                              Has the modal/modless switch been added to 4.5 for global setting & per form??????

                              Pretty please!!!!

                              Thanks,
                              Mike
                              Thank you,
                              Mike Konoff

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