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Enterprise Reporting (i.e. SQL) now available for A5 V7

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    Enterprise Reporting (i.e. SQL) now available for A5 V7

    We are pleased to announce that a new optional add-in is available for Alpha Five V7.

    The 'Enterprise Reporting' add-in allows you to create reports, labels and letters on any SQL database for which an ODBC driver is available, or for which Alpha Five has a native driver.

    Alpha Five has native drivers for MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Access, and Excel. With A5's native drivers connecting to these backend databases is extremely easy and quick - no ODBC drivers to install, no DSN files to configure! (A5 also has a driver for QuickBooks but this driver also requires that you purchase QODBC from FLEXquarters.com.)

    'Enterprise Reporting' includes a fantastic SQL Query Genie that allows users who have little or no experience with SQL to create very complex SQL statments.

    Another great feature of 'Enterprise Reporting' is 'passive-link' tables - native A5 tables that are populated with data from remote databases and that can be refreshed at any time to get the latest data from the backend database. 'Passive-link' tables are great for building reporting and analysis applications on remote data - especially if you want to work in a 'disconnected' mode.

    For more information, and to see videos demoing the new feaures, go to http://www.alphasoftware.com/enterprisereporting

    #2
    The return of linked tables ?

    Does this replace the linked table functionality which existed in A5v5 and was removed from A5v6 ??

    Does every user on a network require a licensed copy of the add-in in order to access the linked tables ? If yes is there going to be a runtime version ?

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      #3
      Passive-linked tables are 'read only' with respect to the backend database. I.e. if you edit data in the passive-linked table, the changes are NOT persisted back to the back end database.

      Later this year we will release 'active-linked' tables in which changes made to the 'active-link' table are immediately posted back to the backend database.

      At present, every user will require their own full copy of A5 and Enterprise Reporting.

      Later this year we will release a 'Report Server' product.

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        #4
        Thank you Selwyn - that is really good news !

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          #5
          Selwyn,

          Forgive me, but I think I'm missing the big picture. Is this product and the 'Report Server' product to be released later this year, partial steps in the direction of eventually releasing the Client-Server version?

          Thanks for clearing this up for me.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Vince McGinnis
            Selwyn,

            Forgive me, but I think I'm missing the big picture. Is this product and the 'Report Server' product to be released later this year, partial steps in the direction of eventually releasing the Client-Server version?

            Thanks for clearing this up for me.
            Yes.

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              #7
              Selwyn,

              Okay, thanks.

              I quess I thought the CS version was closer to being finished.

              I really do like what I see so far... the SQL Query Genie, native drivers, etc.

              As always, though it takes a lot of time, it looks like you guys are making sure its done the right way.

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                #8
                You can download documentation for Enterprise Reporting in CHM and PDF formats from the Alpha Software website.

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