April 1, 2024
When it comes to ISAM files, typically only a single factor limits the size of an ISAM file: available disk space. Of course, there is the […]
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April 19, 2022
When Synergex introduced encryption—starting with the HTTP API in v8.1, and adding xfServer/xfServerPlus in v9 and SQL Connection in v10.3.3—it was implemented on all supported platforms using […]
June 21, 2021
I was recently asked the following ISAM performance question: “What is the best and fastest way to delete records from an ISAM file?” Most Synergy applications […]
June 23, 2020
Over the years, Synergex has provided a few different re-indexing tools for its proprietary ISAM files. Back in the ’80s when DBL version 4 first came […]
September 19, 2019
In Synergy Version 10.3.3, we added initial support for Join. You can find an article I wrote about Join back in the July 28, 2016, issue […]
January 27, 2018
The Synergy/DE Select class is a very powerful tool, but if you’re not careful, it can be a performance bottleneck. One of the advantages of a […]
July 10, 2017
The Synergy sort has always been a powerful language feature. However, as disk drives have gotten larger, so, too, have the files sorted. Files that used […]
June 29, 2016
The Select statement was introduced back in Synergy/DE 9.3.1, originally conceived as a tool to retrieve status from the new change tracking feature yet to be […]
May 5, 2015
You’ve just spent months reorganizing your application to run on tablets and installing Wi-Fi for your shop floor managers. You rolled out the new version with […]