Bill Beale is a Consultant/Investigation team leader in a special investigations unit. He studied computing as a sub-major in an Administration degree at the University of Canberra in the 1970s and is a self-taught PowerBuilder programmer, having taken over the ongoing coding and development of applications about five years ago
I recently read Berndt Hamboeck's article, ‘NetStart' Your PowerBuilder
Application after being kindly pointed to it by Bruce Armstrong. It made
perfect sense to me to be able to distribute .pbd patches to client machines
by having the client-application automatically install them from the
application's database. In the lead-up in Berndt's article, he touched on a
similar problem - the difficulties of distributing database modification
scripts to DBAs prior to the installation of a new executable. In this
respect, I had coded functionality for the application I develop to process
database modifications from within the application without the need for the
DBA's intervention. I tentatively mentioned this to Bruce. (I say
‘tentatively' because I'm a relatively inexperienced programmer). He asked
me to write this article.
By way of background, I'm a self-taught PowerBu... (more)
Bill Beale is a Consultant/Investigation team leader in a special investigations unit. He studied computing as a sub-major in an Administration degree at the University of Canberra in the 1970s and is a self-taught PowerBuilder programmer, having taken over the ongoing coding and development of applications about five years ago
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