Turbo Database

Index
TurboDB Components
    TTdbDataSet
    TTdbTable
    TTdbBatchMove
Turbo Database
    Overview
    Colum Data Types
    Queries
    Operators and Functions
    Working with Indexes
    Automatic Linking
    Working with Link and Relation Fields
    Shared Tables
    Table Locks
    Data Security
TurboDB Tools
    TurboDB Workbench
    TurboDB Data Exchange
    dataWeb Builder
    Visua Data Publisher
Frequently Asked Questions

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Overview

Turbo Database is a very fast and compact 32 bit database kernel that has proven to fit the needs of application programmers over the last eight years. In the current version 4.0 the Windows DLL has about 0,5 MB and can be stripped down to less than 400 kB. It does not need any configuration but a simple text file, so it can be installed by just copying the file. This feature makes it an ideal solution for Web applications, that are to run on a remote Web server only available via ftp. Turbo Database is available for Windows and Linux platforms. The latter is scheduled for September 2000.

Some technical data:

Column Data Types

Turbo Database offers the following types of table columns:

Column Names

Column have to be valid identifiers. That means they may contain up to 40 characters, digits and the special characters _ and -. The first character of a column name must not be a digit. Spaces are not allowed but German umlauts are. To illustrate these rules we show a list of examples of valid and invalid column names.

Valid column names are:

Name
Age
Straße
Avarage_Duration
Date-of-birth
Address8
Lösung

These are examples of invalid column names:

No of Items (spaces not allowed)
Very_long_name_exceeding_the_40_characters_limit (48 characters is too long)
3645 (first character must be non-digit)

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Last updated on 11/19/2000. Copyright (c) 2000 by dataWeb GmbH, Aicha, Germany. Turbo Database and TurboDB Components are products by dataWeb - the manufacturers of RAD tools for the Web. Please send your hints, questions and comments to Peter Pohmann.