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Overview of Pervasive Access Methods

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The following is a summary of Pervasive access methods and APIs.

Access Method
Description
Documented in these manuals
Used For
Btrieve (transactional)
Original Btrieve API
Programmer's Guide
API Programmer's Reference
Creating Btrieve database applications
ADO (Microsoft IDEs)
High-level visual or code-based programming
Visual Programmer's Reference
Programmer's Guide
Visual programming of transactional (Btrieve) or relational (SQL) applications. This is the recommended programming interface for Microsoft development environments.
PDAC (Borland IDEs)
Pervasive Direct Access Components for Delphi and C++ Builder
Visual Programmer's Reference
Programmer's Guide
Developer's Resource Center - psdrc.hlp
Replaces functionality of Borland data-aware components and eliminates need for Borland Database Engine.
ODBC (relational)
Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity
SQL Engine Reference
Creating SQL-based applications
Java Class Library
Java Class Library for Btrieve data access.
Programmer's Guide
API Programmer's Reference
(HTML versions of Java documents included)
Developer's Resource Center - psdrc.hlp
Creating Java-based Btrieve applications
JDBC
Implementation of Sun's Java Database Connectivity
Programmer's Guide
API Programmer's Reference
Creating JDBC-based SQL applications using an industry-standard API.
Distributed Tuning Interface (DTI)
Pervasive's API for monitoring and administration
API Programmer's Reference
Performing administrative and utility functions from applications, creating and maintaining Data Dictionary Files from applications
Distributed Tuning Objects (DTO)
Pervasive's object-oriented programming interface for monitoring and administration
Visual Programmer's Reference
Performing administrative and utility functions from applications, creating and maintaining Data Dictionary Files from applications


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