Articles Tagged with UniVerse I-Types

I-Types within UniVerse field definitions

MS-Access 2010 and Calculated Fields

The new version of MS-Access (2010) has the ability for calculated fields. You may already know this concept as virtual fields, I-Descriptors, derived fields, or if you are rather long-in-the-tooth; correlatives within U2. So, does MS-Access 2010 have the same...

Mail lists down

Mar 28, 2008

The U2 mail lists have been down now since 24th March 08. A couple of emails came through this morning, so I hope that...

Get an F for History

Nov 21, 2007

As I am in the process of moving, I am in the middle of the 'clean and junk' routine. I found a very old fax, dated 27...

DIY B-Tree’s

Sep 14, 2007

While reading through the PICK entry on the wikipedia.org website, I found a link to www.semaphorecorp.com which has...

Address indexing

September 6, 2007 | Code, MVDBS, SystemBuilder, Techniques, UniVerse, UniVerse I-Types

Some years ago, I needed to have a flexible search facility on an address field or fields. The address has stored ...

Try and Catch

August 1, 2007 | Code, Ideas, MVDBS, SystemBuilder, Techniques, UniVerse, UniVerse I-Types

The use of THEN/ELSE came up in the U2 lists. I have always had trouble with these statements as they introduce ...

Timing TRANS and READ

January 25, 2006 | MVDBS, SB+ Server, SystemBuilder, UniBasic, UniVerse, UniVerse I-Types

What is the speed difference between a TRANS() statement and a READ statement in U2 uniVerse and bother to find out?