Posts made by Reid Cooper

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@JaredBusch said in Data Base Management:

@Reid-Cooper said in Data Base Management:

https://lonetreerob.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/the-technical-side-of-aloha-pos-integration/

Finally, from an Aloha interface perspective, I need to discuss the Aloha database file system. Instead of using a single large database file to store all of its configuration information, the developers of Aloha elected to put most of this information in Dbase format files (DBFs). You can read these files with Excel and you can read these files programmatically. You can write to these files, but that’s dangerous, because Aloha adds fields to these files from time to time with new versions—so you can end up having to write code that treats the DBFs differently, depending on the version.

Aloha is the database engine here. There is no database tool being used. It's just something akin to CSV files with DBF names. If you show us the contents of one of them, we could tell you in a few minutes what they are. But they are not from any "database" product, they are simply the data files of Aloha.

So it sounds like Notepad will likely work just fine.

and nailed it..

Notepad does not work, but I found one. It's called "db navigator".
The "dbfs" are stored in what looks to be "csv "?now that I look a little more closely.
Sorry for the confusion, but I honestly didn't have the answers for what you guys were asking.
I get it, my question in and of itself was vague. But I didn't have an understanding of what you all were talking about.

Notepad opens CSV, CSV is just a text document. What happens when you try to open in Notepad?

I don't recall anything like that, but it makes sense that if a company can produce records, they would be compelled so to do. The policy would show what they were supposed to destroy, anything that was kept outside of that policy would be expected to be called upon in court.

Easiest thing, show some contents of any one of the files and we will probably have all that we need to know almost instantly.

It's hard to tell what is working for people and what is just something someone is suggesting. Also there is a lot of conflicting info, for example some people are saying that the system "used to be" flat file based, then others saying it has changed and is now SQL based. But flat file refers to how the data is stored on disk, and SQL refers to how it is referenced through the application, so it's like saying that a car used to use rubber tires, but has changed and how has leather seats - maybe the tires changed, too. But that someone says that the seat material changed and they associated that with the tires just tells us that people don't know what they are saying.

https://lonetreerob.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/the-technical-side-of-aloha-pos-integration/

Finally, from an Aloha interface perspective, I need to discuss the Aloha database file system. Instead of using a single large database file to store all of its configuration information, the developers of Aloha elected to put most of this information in Dbase format files (DBFs). You can read these files with Excel and you can read these files programmatically. You can write to these files, but that’s dangerous, because Aloha adds fields to these files from time to time with new versions—so you can end up having to write code that treats the DBFs differently, depending on the version.

Aloha is the database engine here. There is no database tool being used. It's just something akin to CSV files with DBF names. If you show us the contents of one of them, we could tell you in a few minutes what they are. But they are not from any "database" product, they are simply the data files of Aloha.

So it sounds like Notepad will likely work just fine.

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@Reid-Cooper said in Data Base Management:

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@travisdh1 said in Data Base Management:

Let's start at the beginning. What is the PoS software in use? From that we should be able to track down what the actual database is.

I work with Aloha

http://www.abacuspos.com/dbf_file_structure.html

yep... I knew that part...
Which tool do you you to **VIEW** .dbf files for accuracy/ troubleshooting.

None, because that's not a standard structure for any database tools.

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@travisdh1 said in Data Base Management:

Let's start at the beginning. What is the PoS software in use? From that we should be able to track down what the actual database is.

I work with Aloha

http://www.abacuspos.com/dbf_file_structure.html

@DustinB3403 or planning for a night out on the town, and dressing up, calling all of your friends, pre-paying for drinks and dinner, running on credit card debt to do it, taking an Uber there, and then deciding not to get out of the car while all of your friends are waiting on you.

@DustinB3403 said in Tech History: Obliterase:

Even companies that have a great product or plan need paying customers. Since everyone needs to eat.

You may not need a lot of customers but a handful at a minimum. So this isn't surprising as it happens all of the time.

But that was what I meant... they should have known that they would need paying customers. So closing up after investing all that money, but before they offered the product for sale seems like they really miscalculated how to spend their money. Had they gotten to market and allowed people to buy it, maybe they would have made it. but they put so much money into marketing before releasing, then never released.

@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying not to eat another granola bar... but seriously thinking about it

Seems like an extra granola bar would be a minor dietary transgression.

Anyone remember Obliterase? They just crossed my mind and I decided to look them up. From what I can see, they appear to have been "Obliterased" themselves. They were a hard drive destruction vendor, but it looks like maybe they folded before they ever got off of the ground? Looks like maybe they evaporated four years ago.

Always find it surprising when a company folds so quickly. It takes a lot of money to develop a product, do marketing, attend conferences, promote, and so forth. Why do all of that work if you don't have the money to hold out till you at least go to market. I think that they must have run out of cash before releasing?

Just a footnote in IT history.

Azure AD's Use of SAML Protocol

There is a Wine for Android option perhaps. And if your ChromeOS runs Linux apps, Wine might work that way.

TGIF. Been a long week, probably the hit from being back from the holidays.

@jmoore What aquarium are you at?

This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?

@EddieJennings the site still says "temporarily" sold out. That doesn't sound like it is officially deprecated.

Welcome guys.

Just the regularity of updates makes it pretty impressive.

I have not seen anything yet.