Re: Important!

John . Doan (j_doan_at_turing.uncg.edu) wrote:
: Hello everyone,
: I'm a PowerBuilder user and don't know a whole lot about Oracle Forms.
: Would anyone out there please let me know the differences between
: PowerBuilder and Oracle? Thank you in advance.
 

: J Doan.

John, the difference is in focus. Like what's the differetween a computer monitor and a TV set.

Powerbuilder focuses on buig apps (or application programs) for the Windows operating system (maybe others). Powerbuilder ca everything, and tries to up fro, especially handle screen windows.

Oracle focuses on database. Oracle is best form of data base called relational. Oracle organizes data into tables of rows and columes and talks to data (and you) with a language base called SQL. Oracle Forms opens screen windows into the oracle database tables. Oracle Forms show data on the screen, let you fill in blanks, store the data, et

Powerbuilder can do what Oracle does.
Oracle can do what Powerbuilder do.

                   A TV set can do what a computer monitor does.
                   A computer monitor can do what a TV  set does.

Best regards ................................James Febbo

[A Received on Thu Mar 16 1995 - 05:31:46 CET