From Zero to Hero: PowerBuilder Basic Training Course

Author: Liu Zunren, Wang Yushun (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: PowerBuilder is a high-performance front-end development tool for client/server, Internet, and distributed database applications. Due to its ease of learning, user-friendliness, and powerful functionality, it is highly favored by a broad user base, especially professional database developers. Compared to previous versions, it offers even more powerful features and a more user-friendly development and operation interface.
Since PowerBuilder is a very comprehensive system, this book carefully selects and arranges its content with the practical needs of beginners in mind, truly achieving a "start from zero" approach. Through in-depth study of this book, readers can basically master the essence of PowerBuilder 9.0, especially Chapter 12, which provides a detailed example of a book inventory management system to illustrate the various stages of database development. By understanding these details, readers can quickly improve their practical application development skills. If readers combine practical problems with frequent practice, they can certainly develop personal-level, website-level, or enterprise-level database management systems tailored to their work needs.
This book introduces the basic concepts and usage methods of PowerBuilder 9.0 in a step-by-step manner, with a focus on its workspace, application objects, window objects, window controls, data window objects, data window programming techniques, as well as SQL (Structured Query Language) and the PBL Library Manager. The book presents concepts concisely and clearly, providing illustrated examples for each important and complex concept. Beginners can master the basic usage and corresponding techniques of PowerBuilder 9.0 through learning. Each chapter ends with corresponding exercises to help readers assess their learning progress.
This book is highly suitable as a foundational training tutorial for PowerBuilder 9.0 and can also be used by readers with some background in database theory for self-study.