How to start learning SBT?

[ychousa]

Hi, I have been working in this company as a system developer, working on mainly extensive Access database development. Recently our key accounting staff, who knows SBT(Pro series 6.5) well, quit the company, and my boss wants me to learn SBT and give him the solutions that only IT people can do. But I am wondering how to start learning. Can any one recommend me a good way to start? Well, our company has some basic manual books which explains how to run the program, but what my boss wants is more advanced stuff which accounting staff normally can't do. I would be appreciated for any comments. Thanks.

 

[dgillz]

Find a good SBT reseller and schedule him/her for some one on on training. This should give you started.

Software Sales, Training, Implementation and Support for Exact Macola, eSynergy, and Crystal Reports
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[ychousa]

Thanks for your reply, dgillz.

That seems a good idea, but wouldn't I need to learn Fox Pro before I start the session with a reseller to clear understand what she's talking about? I have intermediate knowledge about SQL and VBA, but I've never played around with Fox Pro. Being different from a system such as Oracle, I found it's kind of hard to find an instruction about SBT. Thank you.

 

[dgillz]

SBT's FoxPro files are just .dbf files. You should be able to write code to manipulate these files without learning FoxPro.

Software Sales, Training, Implementation and Support for Exact Macola, eSynergy, and Crystal Reports
askdon@srhconsulting.com

http://www.srhconsulting.com

 

[ychousa]

Thanks for your help, dgillz. Your comments are very helpful.

 

[SBTBILL]

You can open a dbf with Access, however, be careful about file locks. You also need a tech reference manual which will tell you where the data is stored.

SBTBILL
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[calpolymis1]

My account had a problem, so I had to make a new username. Thanks for your reply, SBTBILL, but how can you prevent file locks? It seems that Access tries to lock the table automatically even though I open it with "Read-only."

 

[north84]

Try "R&R Report Writer for Windows". It's from a 3rd party vendor. 800-325-9035.

It is great for custom reports w/o recreating the wheel.

 

[SBTBILL]

Access file locks are the problem. You need a copy of the teck ref manual, too. Contact me at http:\\

http://www.sbtbill.com.

Learning foxpro is not that hard VFP is basically VB.

Bill Couture

 

[bbrendan]

Hi There,

I use an older version of SBT (Dos version Actually!!) it uses dbase file, which I have been sucessfully writing VB6 applications against for a long time.

If you need an an example just let me know I can fire you a simple sample

cheers

 

[SBTBILL]

ACCESS, VB6, Crystal, R&R will all work with various degrees of success. One idea for avoiding locks might be to copy the files to another directory and work on the copies.

If you can use VB6 you can use VFP they are esentially different flavores of the same program. VFP has a bit richer group of properties and methods and a better report writer, but the concepts are the same.

SBTBILL

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