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- From: bhc@dirac.i-kinetics.com (Bruce Cottman)
- Subject: Re: MSW Excel to Sybase over TCP/IP ?
- In-Reply-To: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 16:23:07 GMT
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- Organization: I-Kinetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA USA
- References: <1992Dec22.162307.18192@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:49:19 GMT
-
- Q+E (ships with Excel). ..But.. You probably want to get the "full" client/server
- version directly from Pioneer.
-
- However, if you deploying EISs based on Excel, and you need to access
- "production" databases, which are heavily used,
- -or-
- you would rather have more a more direct link to Sybase (or Oracle),
- you might consider the following solution:
-
- **WARNING: SELF SERVING ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOWS***
-
- I-Bridge: Complete solution for accessing Oracle and Sybase from MS EXCEL
-
- Today's most vexing data problem is not whether or where the needed
- information exists but how to transfer it to and from your favorite
- desktop application. Usually the solutions available are to type in
- the data, or import a file from a network or floppy disk.
-
- With I-Bridge you can access more and better information now, when you
- need it. While in your favorite Microsoft Windows applications you
- can grab data directly from remote corporate databases. You gain
- access to up-to-the-minute database information. And since the data is
- now in your Microsoft Windows application, you have complete control
- to format and analyze it to your specific needs. All this without
- having to learn yet another application just so that you can get your
- job done. There is no learning curve. You realize increased
- productivity immediately.
-
- *********I-Bridge Version 2.0 Features************
-
-
- () Breaks the 64KB Windows Data Transfer Barrier.
-
- I-Bridge succeeds where other Windows database links fail. It breaks
- through 64 KByte barrier of MS Windows with data transfers of 1000 KByte
- or more.
-
- Who needs more 64KB? This is about 800 rows. Is this enough? Not
- when finance wants an audit report. Not when marketing wants quota
- drilldowns. Not when trading wants a fund holdings detail. How big
- is your database 1MB, 100MB, 10,000MB? What are the chances that you
- are going to need to download more than 64KB of data from it? What
- are going to do?
-
- () The fastest data transfer available.
-
- I-Bridge blasts data in at greater 150 pages per minute!
-
- () Retrieves data in background freeing you to do other work.
-
- The I-Bridge works in the background. Your application is not blocked
- waiting for data to be returned.
-
- Asking for data against heavily loaded database servers can result
- in long wait times. You do not want your application to be locked
- for minutes maybe even hours.
-
- () Triggers
-
- I-Bridge triggers are similar to the advanced features in the
- latest releases of modern relational DBMS products. Using triggers,
- the I-Bridge will activate your spreadsheet macro when the data is
- returned.
-
- You can build very sophisticated spreadsheet applications
- using I-Bridge triggers.
-
- For example, you can build sophisticated spreadsheet models or reports
- with I-Bridge automatically gathering the data from remote databases.
- You can also pre-schedule your transfers from one or more corporate
- databases, automating daily, weekly or monthly analysis and reporting.
- And please, don't let your imagination stop there. You can
- automatically distribute these reports using already in-place e-mail,
- printers or fax modems. Or automatically store them in a remote
- database. You could even automate the generation of an up-to-date
- distribution list using the I-Bridge to reach the corporation's
- employee or customer profile database.
-
- () SQL CASE Assistant -- Generate complete spreadsheet data access macros
-
- () Full DDE support for integration with other Windows applications
-
- You can build your own custom applications using Microsoft Excel, Word
- and Visual Basic, Lotus 1-2-3, Ami, Notes and Improv, Borland
- ObjectVision and Quatro and Asymetrix Toolbook. Any application that
- supports Windows Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) can use the I-Bridge to
- link remote services.
-
- () Full Unix and TCP/IP networking support.
-
- TCP/IP is the standard Network Operation System for Unix.
-
- () Gateway toolkit for accessing other Unix services: libraries and datafeeds
-
- () Transaction Monitor
-
- See the status of all your pending requests immediately.
-
- () Access to Oracle and Sybase, the two most popular Unix DBMSs.
-
- The I-Bridge supports both standard SQL and SQL extensions. You can
- use your organizations full investment is such advanced DBMS features
- as stored procedures, aggregates and multiple selects.
-
- () Add-in macro library for Excel 3.0 and Excel 4.0.
-
- () Support for both Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1.
-
-