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Received in response to our ‘5 Reasons’ blog post, we decided to share this email because it includes more great reasons for choosing a MultiValue database!

REASONS FOR CHOOSING A MULTI-VALUE DATABASE By: Sidney Abrahams                                                    Many vendors, millions of users, global support Optimized algorithms for operations Automatic indexing Archiving built in Transaction Logging Incremental saves Three dimensional data structure Reduced development design complexity Variable length records Can be Web enabled Database structure legally licensed over 27 times Memory resident binary…

Maverick System mvAPI

Dick Thiot has made his mvAPI C# application available to the multivalue community. It is available for download on GitHub at https://github.com/dthiot/mvAPI. It allows a multivalue developer to provide data from a multivalue database to a web page. The solution requires the BlueFinity’s mv.NET product to provide the access to the Multivalue database. The mvAPI…

As an IBM Business Partner and a Red Hat Linux VAR and support provider, this is exciting news for Ashwood’s ‘A-Team’.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acquisition-of-Red-Hat-for-34-Billion-Defines-Open-Hybrid-Cloud-Future

We’ve Been Providing Sales, Services And Support For Global MultiValue database Users For Over 30 Years!

“It is hard to believe we’ve been in business for over thirty years but we know it’s true when you love what you do, time seems to pass quickly.”

Remember Mr Peabody?

Way cool website let’s you look back in time at any website. It’s called the wayback machine (Sherman & Peabody?). You can check it out by navigating to https://archive.org/web/ and search for a URL and pick a date a view the website at that point in time.

PickWiki – An Excellent Reference for MultiValue

Check out the PickWiki website. It is an excellent reference for all MultiValue users and developers. Just Google “PickWiki”.

Good News For The A-Team!

Ashwood Computer, Inc. has been selected as a finalist in the competition for this year’s Blue Ash Business Awards!

The Blue Ash Business Committee & Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce want to celebrate Blue Ash businesses that best exemplify the city’s motto – Aspire, Achieve, Advance.

https://www.cincinnatichamber.com/events-programs/awards-recognition/blue-ash-business-awards-reception/blue-ash-business-awards-reception

Using a BASIC Matrix to Improve Performance

BASIC DIMension statement

The BASIC DIM statement allows you to create a one or two dimension matrix. It is an executable statement with a high overhead. I have found programmers using the DIM statement in a loop. This is a poor use of the DIM statement and incurs a high overhead due to deleting and creating the matrix…

Short Python program to convert a .txt to a PDF

Older multivalue application still print using a page format of either 132 chars by 66 lines or 80 chars by 60 lines. It would be nice if they could be converted to a PDF format for distribution. This is a simple Python script that can convert a .txt file to a PDF using a Python…