PowerBuilder 10.5 Launch and Learning Event

8/17/2019 PowerBuilder 10.5 Launch and Learning Event

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Power Builder 10.5 and 11.0 Featur es 1

Power Builder 10.5 Launch and

Lear ning Event

Sybase Conf idential Pr opriety.

Sponsored by ISUG and Sybase


Agenda

❧Power Builder 10.5 Overview

❧Power Builder 11

Web Services EnhancementsUser Inter f ace Enhancements

DataWindow EnhancementsDatabase Connectivity Enhancements

Language EnhancementsPower Builder Contr ols


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PowerBuilder 10.5Overview


PowerBuilder Contr ols


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DatePicker Contr ol

❧New contr ol and/or enhancement to EditMask

❧New DataWindow edit mask style


New Rich Text Edit Contr ol

❧ Pr ovides a moder n look and includes new featur es, including theability to name and use formatting styles

❧ Most of the pr oper ties and functions of rich text ob jects in pr evious versions of Power Builder continue to be suppor ted by the new richtext editor

❧ Obsolete pr oper ties and functions ar e ignor ed on rich text ob jects impor ted f r om pr evious versions of Power Builder

❧ The new rich text editor suppor ts a subset of the RTF specif icationversion 1.6


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Rich Text Editor User Inter f aceChanges

Rulers, Toolbars, and Status bars

❧Like the earlier rich text editor , the new editor includes a too lbar andr uler that you can hide or display at design time or r untime

❧If you enable the PopMenu pr oper ty on a RichTextEdit contr ol or richtext DataWindow, end users of your Power Builder applications can alsoopt to display or hide the toolbar or r uler

❧The new editor includes a status bar that you can enable at designtime or r untime, or that the users of your rich text applications can optto display or hide

❧The rich text editor no longer includes a separ ate tab bar . End users ofa rich text contr ol can set tabs for the contr ol in the Tabs dialog box or

dir ectly on the r uler


Rich Text Editor User Inter f aceChanges

Toolbar Items

❧The toolbar has a contempor ary f lat-style look

❧ It includes dr op-down lists for :

❧ formatting style

❧zoom percent

❧Toolbar buttons for adding bullets or sequential numbers to par agr aphs


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Obsolete Pr oper ties

The following pr oper ties ar e not suppor ted in the new rich texteditor :

❧ Retur nsVisible

❧ SpacesVisible

❧ TabBar

❧ TabsVisible

❧ UndoDepth

If you set these pr oper ties on a RichTextEdit contr ol, they ar eignor ed by the new editor

The maximum undo depth in the new rich text editor is 50❧ This value cannot be changed at either design time or r untime


Migration issue

❧ When you migr ate applications cr eated in older versions of Power Builder , the InputFieldsVisible pr oper ty inRichTextEdit contr ols and in RichText DataWindow ob jects is automatically set to "false" in the migr atedapplications

❧ You must set this pr oper ty to "tr ue" to see data in theinput f ields. You must set this pr oper ty and theInputFieldNamesVisible pr oper ty to "tr ue" to see text

labels for the input f ields in a rich text contr ol


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Demonstration


LanguageEnhancements


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Impor t PBNI Extensions

❧ You can now impor t Power Builder extensions into a libr ary inyour application using a pop-up menu item, and authors ofPower Builder extensions no longer need to supply a PBD f ilewith the extension f ile

❧ A Power Builder extension is an extension to Power Builder functionality cr eated using the Power Builder Native Inter face(PBNI)

❧ Some Power Builder extensions ar e pr ovided with Power Builder ,including the PBDOM, EJB client, SOAP client for Web services,and UDDIPr oxy extensions


Decimal data type upgrade

❧ Pr ovide suppor t for 28 digits versus curr ent 18

❧ Position for suppor t of .NET which handles 28 digits

❧ DataWindow expr ession suppor t

❧ Curr ently all numerics conver ted to double befor e calculations

❧ Added Decimal() DataWindow function for conversion


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Byte data type

❧ The Byte datatype is the same as the Uint datatype except that it has amor e r estricted r ange: f r om 0 to 255

❧ For inter action with Java components or Web services, the Power ScriptByte datatype maps dir ectly to Byte datatypes in the Java and C# or .NET languages

New Methods:

❧ Byte (stringor blob)

❧ Conver ts a numeric datatype, including a string whose value is a number ,into a Byte datatype, or obtains a Byte value stor ed in a blob

❧ GetByte (blobvariable, n, b)

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Extr acts data of type Byte f r om a blob variable❧ SetByte (blobvariable, n, b)

❧ Sets data of type Byte for a blob variable


Database ConnectivityEnhancements


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Database Connectivity Enhancements

❧Database Tr acing Enhancements

❧ ADO.NET suppor t for ASE and Or acle

❧ ASE 15 Suppor t

❧Suppor t for ASE 15 Tempor ary Tables

❧NChar Bind Database par ameter for Or acle


Database Tracing Enhancements

❧ Power Builder 10.5 includes accur acy and ease-of -useenhancements to the main database tr ace utility,PBTR A105.DLL, and pr ovides a second tr ace utility,PBTRS105.DLL

❧ The newer utility logs the date and time (r ather than the timeelapsed) of each SQL statement issued to the database

❧ This utility can use a timestamp f r om the time zone of the

DBMS server machine, allowing clients in separ ate timezones to mer ge tr ace output f iles in a meaningful fashion


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ADO.NET suppor t for ASE and Oracle

❧ Power Builder 10.5 pr ovides native access to AdaptiveServer Enter prise and Or acle using ADO.NET

❧ Connect to a database using the ADO.NET datapr oviders and per form oper ations using native syntax

❧ Cr eate a new connection or shar e an existing connectionob ject for tr ansaction management


ADO.NET suppor t for ASE and Oracle

Data Pr ovider Namespace

.NET Fr amework Data Pr ovider for OLE DB System.Data.OleDb

.NET Fr amework Data Pr ovider for SQL Server System.Data.SqlClient

Or acle Data Pr ovider for .NET (ODP.NET) Or acle.DataAccess.Client

Sybase ADO.NET Data Pr ovider for ASE Sybase.Data.AseClient

Suppor t is pr ovided in the PBADO105.DLL f ile and the

Sybase.Power Builder .Db.dll and Sybase.Power Builder .DbExt.dll .NET assemblies

The ADO.NET drivers distributed with Power Builder ar e built with a specif ic version of the ADO.NET assemblies pr ovided by Sybase and Or acle


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ASE 15 Suppor t

Scr ollable cursors

❧ ASE allows both scr ollable and nonscr ollable cursors, which can be either semi-sensitive or insensitive

❧ "Scr ollable" means that you can scr oll thr ough the cursor r esult set by fetchingany, or many, r ows, r ather than one r ow at a time

❧ you can also scan the r esult set r epeatedly

❧ The CursorType database par ameter lets you specif y the type of cursor to use

Unitext suppor t

❧ Power Builder suppor ts the variable-length unitext datatype, which can hold up to1,073,741,823 Unicode char acters (2,147,483,646 bytes)

❧ You can use unitext anywher e you use the text datatype, with the same semantics

❧ Unitext columns ar e stor ed in UTF-16 encoding, r egar dless of the Adaptive Server default char acter set

❧ The Unitext datatype uses UTF-16 encoding to suppor t Unicode text and maps tothe Power Script string datatype


ASE 15 Suppor t

Bigint suppor t

❧ Power Builder suppor ts the 64-bit integer signed and unsigned bigintdatatypes, which map to the Power Script longlong datatype

Unsigned integer datatypes (int and smallint)

❧ Power Builder also suppor ts two other unsigned integer datatypes intr oducedin Adaptive Server 15.0

❧ In this r elease, the unsigned integer datatypes ar e suppor ted whenconnecting to Adaptive Server using the SYC and JDBC drivers

❧ These datatypes allow you to extend the r ange of the positive numbers for the existing integer types without incr easing the r equir ed stor age size

❧ That is, the signed versions of these datatypes extend both in the negativedir ection and the positive dir ection

❧ However , the unsigned versions extend only in the positive dir ection


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ASE 15 Suppor t

❧ To use Adaptive Server 15, you must install Open Client version 15on the client computer and set the Release par ameter to 15 toestablish an Open Client 15 client context

❧ You can specif y the Release par ameter on the Connection page ofthe Database Pr of ile Setup dialog box for Adaptive Server or in code:

SQLCA.DBParm="Release='15'"


ASE 15 Suppor t (Continued)

❧ The Open Client 15 client context can be used with Adaptive Server 11.x, 12.x, and 15.x

❧ In Power Builder 10.5, the SYC driver links to the appr opriate versionof the client libr aries dynamically and the Open Client context is r eleased when all connections ar e closed

❧ If you open multiple connections, the f irst Open Client contextetablished is used for all connections

❧ If you need to establish a new Open Client context in thedevelopment envir onment, close all open connections and establish anew connection with the Release par ameter set to the context your equir e


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Suppor t for ASE 15 Temporary Tables

❧ Power Builder 10.5 allows you to cr eate and edit tempor ary tables in theDatabase painter , SQL painter , or DataWindow painter when you use thePower Builder SYC native driver to connect to an Adaptive Server database

❧ Tempor ary tables persist for the dur ation of a database connection,r esiding in a special database called "tempdb“

❧ You add a tempor ary table to the tempdb database by assigning a namethat star ts with the # char acter when you cr eate a new table in aPower Builder painter . (Tempor ary tables must star t with the # char acter .)

❧ After you cr eate a tempor ary table, you can cr eate indexes and a primary key for the table❧

If you def ine a unique index or primary key, you can execute INSERT,UPD ATE, and DELETE statements for a tempor ary table❧ Selecting Edit Data f r om the pop-up menu of a tempor ary table r etrieves data

that you stor e in that table


Suppor t for ASE 15 Temporary Tables

You can cr eate DataWindow ob jects that access tempor ary tables in a Power Builder r untime application, but your application must f irst explicitly cr eate the tempor ary tables,along with the appr opriate keys and indexes, using thesame database tr ansaction ob ject used by the DataWindow

You can use the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Powerscriptsyntax to cr eate tempor ary tables at r untime:


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NChar Bind Database parameter forOracle

❧ The NChar Bind database par ameter for Or acle 9i and Or acle 10gimpr oves per formance by allowing you to specif y whether stringvariables should be tr eated as Char or NChar datatypes

❧ The default is to tr eat string variables as Char datatypes

❧ You can set this par ameter on the Tr ansaction tab page in theDatabase Pr of ile Setup dialog box for Or acle9i and Or acle 10g


DataWindowEnhancements


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Treeview Presentation Style

Designed similar to gr oup DataWindow

❧Pr oper ty suppor t

❧Node lines

❧Icons❧Grid style

❧Indention size

❧Event suppor t

❧Expanding / Expanded

❧Collapsing / Collapsed

❧Function suppor t

❧Expand (multiple variations)❧Collapse (multiple variations)


TreeView Presentation Style Pr oper ties

❧CollapsedTr eeNodeIconName

❧DefaultExpandToLevel

❧ExpandedTr eeNodeIconName

❧Indent

❧ShowConnectLines

❧ShowLeaf NodeConnectLines

❧ShowTr eeNodeIcon

❧StateIconAlignMode

❧Tr eeNodeIconName


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TreeView Presentation Style Functions

❧Expand

❧Collapse

❧ExpandAll

❧CollapseAll

❧ExpandAllChildr en

❧CollapseAllChildr en

❧ExpandLevel

❧CollapseLevel

❧IsExpanded


Demonstration


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Enhanced Dr op Down DataWindows in Web DataWindows

❧ When you tab to a column that uses the dr op-down DataWindow edit style,you can use the arr ow keys on the keyboar d to change its value

❧ If you click the column, the dr op-down DataWindow displays so that youcan scr oll to a differ ent value and click to select it

❧ Pr eviously, clicking the column in a Web DataWindow displayed all ther ows in the DataWindow

❧ You set the display pr oper ties for the column on the Edit page in thePr oper ties view in the DataWindow painter

❧ The Width of Dr opDown pr oper ty sets the width of the dr op-down display toa size that is a percentage of the width of the column

❧ For example, 300 sets the display width to thr ee times the column width


Dr op Down Calendar Edit Mask

❧ The dr op-down calendar DataWindow option is available for useon any DataWindow column with an EditMask, and a Date,DateTime, or TimeStamp datatype

❧ The DDCalendar EditMask pr oper ty option allows for separ ateselections of the calendar month, year , and date

❧ This option can be set in a check box on the Edit tab of theDataWindow painter Pr oper ties view when a column with theEditMask edit style is selected

❧ It can also be set in code, as in this example for the bir th_datecolumn:

dw_1.Modif y("bir th _ date.EditMask.DDCalendar=' Yes'")


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HTMLGen Paging Pr oper ty

❧ To set the HTMLGen.Paging pr oper ty, select HTML/XHTML inthe Format To Conf igur e dr op-down list on the Web Gener ationpage in the Pr oper ties view in the painter and then select a valuef r om the Paging Method dr op-down list

❧ You can also set this pr oper ty in code


XMLGen Paging Pr oper ty

Paging operations are per formed on the client byretrieving the full XML result set and per forming an XSLT retransformation of the cached stylesheet

0XMLClientSide!

Paging operations use client-side script callbacks1Callback!

Paging operations are posted to the server 0Postback!

DescriptionNumericValue

Value


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Demonstration


New Ink Contr ol Pr oper ties

❧ The SaveInk method saves overlay ink to a f ile or blob f r om anInkPictur e contr ol in a DataWindow

❧ The SaveInkPic method saves a pictur e, and optionally overlay ink, to a f ile

❧ ResetInk clears the ink f r om the contr ol


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dbAlias DataWindow Ob ject Pr oper ty

❧ The dbAlias DataWindow ob ject pr oper ty allows you to get columnnames that use the alias for a table name in a script

❧ Use this pr oper ty if you have def ined an alias for a table name in theSELECT statement for a DataWindow ob ject and you want to obtainthe column name with the table alias so that you can manipulate theupdate WHERE clause dynamically


DataWindow Enhancements

Autosize Height for All DataWindow Bands

❧ All Bands Suppor ted (not just detail band)

❧ Band will r esize for Nested DataWindows

Limitations of the Height.Autosize pr oper ty

❧ The Height.Autosize pr oper ty is not suppor ted on DataWindows withGr aph, Label, OLE, or Rich Text pr esentation styles.

❧ Nested r epor t over f low to the next page is suppor ted in Detail bands only.

❧ Bands cannot be autosized if autosizing would pr eclude the display of atleast one Detail band r ow per page.


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Suppress Gr oup Headers on PageBreak

❧ A new pr oper ty to suppr ess the gr oup headers that display in agr ouped DataWindow ob ject after a page br eak

❧ Does not suppr ess gr oup headers that display on a gr oup br eak

❧ If you have mor e than one gr oup header , you can enable the new pr oper ty on one gr oup header and leave it disabled on another gr oup header


Suppr ess Gr oup Header s on PageBreak

❧ You enable the suppr ess gr oup header pr oper ty by selecting the Suppr ess Gr oup Header check box in the Pr oper ties view for a gr oup header band.You can verif y the pr oper ty setting at r untime with one of the followingmethods:

string s

s = dw_1.describe("datawindow.header.1.SUPPRESS")

s = dw_1.ob ject.datawindow.header.1.suppress

You can modif y the pr oper ty setting at r untime by one of the following methods:

dw_1.modif y("datawindow.header.1.SUPPRESS=no")

dw_1.ob ject.datawindow.header.1.suppress=no


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Suppress Mar gin Bor der Line in Print Preview Mode

❧ By default, a blue line displays in Print Pr eview mode to show the location of the mar gins

❧ You can hide this line by clearing the Print Pr eview Shows Outline check box on the Print Specif ications page in thePr oper ties view in the DataWindow painter


Rich Text DataWindow Pr esentation Style Changes

❧ In Power Builder 10.5, the Pr eview view of the DataWindow painter for a RichText DataWindow is "WYSIWYG" (what you see is whatyou get) and r ead-only

❧ When you set content in Detail view for the DataWindow header andfooter , the Pr eview view displays the header and footer at the sametime as the DataWindow r ow details

❧ In pr evious versions of Power Builder , you wer e r equir ed to open thePrint Pr eview view to pr eview the document body and page mar gins

simultaneously


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Rich Text DataWindow Presentation Style Changes

❧ With the focus in the Pr eview view of the DataWindow painter , youcan still select the File>Print Pr eview menu item to pr eview thedocument befor e it is sent to the printer

❧ Since the pr eview is WYSIWYG, the panel to contr ol mar gins in thePrint Pr eview view has been r emoved

❧ In pr evious builds of Power Builder , the panel for the page mar gins also included buttons to scr oll thr ough the pages of the DataWindow document

❧ In Power Builder 10.5, you must pr ess the Page Up and Page Dnkeys to change pages in the Print Pr eview view


Demonstration


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User Inter f aceEnhancements


New Bitmaps and Icons

❧ Pr ovideupdated look to IDE

❧ Allow use inapplication


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Menu Enhancements

❧Styles

❧Tr aditional

❧Contempor ary

❧Style attributes

❧Shadow

❧Bitmaps (16x16 and 32x32)

❧Titles❧Main backgr ound color

❧Bitmap backgr ound color

❧Highlight color


Toolbar Enhancements

❧Styles

❧Tr aditional

❧Contempor ary

❧Style attributes

❧Titles

❧Main backgr ound color

❧Bitmap backgr ound color ❧Highlight color

❧Text color

❧ Allow toolbars to be attached to top-level non-MDI Windows


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Demonstration


Web Ser vicesEnhancements


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Web Services Enhancements

Adding .NET’s Web Services SDK ❧ Better data type suppor t

❧ Security and Authentication

EasySOAP Implementation❧ Will be left intact, but not enhanced


.NET Web Service Engine

❧ Can handle the XML-type arr ay datatype

❧ Suppor ts the tr ansmission of security constr aints in the header sections in the SOAP message envelope

❧ Suppor ts the latest Web service standar ds

To use this engine, you must have the wsdl.exeWeb service tool on the development computer

❧ Requir ed to parse WSDL f iles and gener ate C# code for a.NET assembly


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.NET Web Service Engine

The wsdl.exe f ile installs with the .NET SDK

It is not required on deployment computers❧ Deployment computers must have the .NET 2.0 Fr amework to

consume a Web service that depends on the .NET Webservice engine


Demonstration


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PowerBuilder 11 and.NET


Power Builder’s 4-Phase .NET Initiative

WebServices

WebServices

DataWindow.NETDataWindow.NET .NETCompiler

.NETCompiler

Power Builder a .NET Language

Power Builder a .NET Language

Power Builder

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Power Builder’s

.NET Integration❧ Goals

❧ Build .NET classes

❧ Consume .NET classes

❧ Inherit f r om .NET classes

❧ Implement .NET inter faces

❧ Phased appr oach

❧ .NET Deployment (PB11)

❧ .NET Tar gets


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Power Builder .NET Compiler Inter nals

.NET Integration ❧ Compiler steps: Relies on r edistributing .NET SDK’s C# compiler

PBL Files PB2CS

PB Compiler Framework

PB System Library

for .NET

C# CodeWinForm/ASP .NET

Application

G e n e r a t e s

C o m p i l e s

Depends On Refer ences To


.NET WinForm Suppor t

❧ Implemented using .NET Windows Forms contr ols

❧ PB Runtime Assemblies r ather than “old school” PBVM

❧ Your applications deployed as .NET Assemblies

❧ Lever ages DataWindow .NET technology

Deploy Power Builder Applications to the Web

Quickly, Easily

❧ Tr ansforms your applications into ASP .NET 2.0 code

❧ Suppor ting most featur es of Power Builder

.NET Compiler


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.NET Compiler

.NET Smar t Client Suppor t❧ Solve the biggest headache of all – Application Deployment

❧ The Best of the Rich Client World

❧ The Ubiquity of the Web

❧ Always up-to-date applications via Smar t updates

❧ Install as much or as little as you want on a client PC

❧ Utilize network r esources

❧ Maximize per formance using client r esources

❧ Communicate Utilizing Web Services


Power Builder .NET Compiler Demo

ASP .NET Deployment of aPower Builder Application


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Power Builder .NET Compiler Demo

Windows Forms Deployment of a Power Builder Application


Power Builder Roadmap

Q12006

Q22006

Q32006

Q12007

Power Builder 10.5• DataWindow Enhancements

• Tr eeView Pr esentation Style

• Auto-size Height for All DataWindow Bands

• UI Enhancements• DateTime Picker

• Menus and Toolbars• New Icons and Bitmaps

• DB Services Enhancements• Native driver for ASE 15.0

• Web Services Enhancements• Suppor t Complex Data Types

• Security / Authentication

Power Builder 11.0.NET Compiler

• ASP .NET Deployment• WinForms Deployment• Smar t Client Suppor t

Web DataWindowEnhancements

Power Builder Application Server Plugin• Deploy PB NVOs dir ectly to 3r d Par ty Application

Servers•

WebSpher e• WebLogic

• JBoss

• Or acle

• Ger onimo


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Asia Pacif ic Resources

www.ap.sybase.com/for um


Power Builder 10.5 Launch and Lear ning Event

Q & A


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Off er expires June 30, 2006

PowerBuilder 10.5 New Features

➘User Interface with new icons, menus, toobars, rich text control

and date picker control

➘Treeview DataWindow presentation style

➘Enhanced DataWindow functionality, such as autosize height on

all DataWindow bands and suppress group header on page-break

➘Byte and 28 Digit Decimal datatypes

➘Support for Oracle 10g and ASE 15

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