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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SchemaE NEXTSTEP DB Application Now Works with Oracle & Sybase Databases Date: 20 Aug 1993 21:09:04 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 76 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <253sjg$9r6@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: Products@LSC.com For Immediate Release Redwood City, California August 20th, 1993 Contact: Lowell Schneider, President, Schema Research Corporation 2603 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 415/368-8477 Email: Products@LSC.com SchemaE NEXTSTEP DB Application Now Works with Oracle & Sybase Databases Schema Research Corporation announced today that it will show an early version of SchemaE(tm) 1.2 that does for Oracle(r) database designs what it now does for Sybase(r). Schema Research will show SchemaE working with Oracle on the NeXT booth at the Oracle International User Group meeting in Orlando, Florida September 27th through October 1st, 1993. The Oracle capabilities and many other new features will be included in SchemaE version 1.2 scheduled for release in February, 1994. SchemaE is a NEXTSTEP(r) CASE database design and management tool that integrates with the NEXTSTEP object-oriented software development tools InterfaceBuilder(r) and Database Kit(r) (DB Kit) for building client/server systems quickly and without extensive programming. SchemaE creates or modifies the database and creates the "model" file needed by DB Kit. DB Kit and Interface Builder provide the tools for creating the applications that use the database. "By automatically generating a DB Kit model, SchemaE helps application developers quickly build custom database applications for NEXTSTEP" says Margaret Chan, Manager of Software Product Marketing at NeXT Computer. SchemaE speeds development and improves the design process by eliminating the need for SQL scripts or programming to update database designs. SchemaE reverse engineers the database every work session, presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the database schema. Changes such as creating tables, adding columns, or changing data types are simple graphical changes to the schema diagram. One command updates the database. Documentation added in SchemaE is stored with the database in special extensions that can be accessed by other tools. "We think SchemaE is a tremendous tool. What we appreciate most is that it directly manipulates the database and then generates the scripts to produce other databases. That is what has saved us so much time. Other tools require more steps to accomplish this" says Wayne Lund of McCaw Cellular, Kirkland, Washington. By dramatically reducing the time and effort invested in each design cycle, SchemaE allows more cycles and therefore encourages greater overall quality of design. "We are redefining CASE to eliminate the distinction between design and implementation by integrating SchemaE tightly with the database." said Lowell Schneider, president of Schema Research Corp. "SchemaE dynamically updates your database and preserves all documentation and design components in the same data dictionary with all implementation components." Bruce McKenzie of PDH, Inc. in San Jose says that "virtually every schema manipulation action can be performed through SchemaE, and the support for DBModels has almost freed us from ever using DBModeler. We no longer worry about getting data from one schema into another. It's as though the data weren't there, it's so easy. SchemaE gave us the confidence to make schema changes that would have been too expensive (in labor hours) before. We estimate that SchemaE gave us a 10-to-1 speedup in the database design and maintenance phases of our projects." Schema Research Corporation provides database expertise in tools, education, and consulting. Please call 415/368-8477 for more information.
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