REALbasic Tip: Converting your old REALdb database to the new format

[Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>]

For REALbasic 5.5 we created an entirely new REALdb database engine 
from scratch. We did this because it was the best way to greatly 
improve the reliability of the database and make it support more SQL. 
In fact, the select statement in the new database engine is nearly 
SQL-92 compliant. And the new REALdb database engine is now available 
in the Standard edition of REALbasic as well.
If you used REALdb in previous versions of REALbasic, you'll want to 
convert your database files to the new format. We created a tool that 
will do this. It also includes an open-source REALbasic class you can 
add to your projects to convert database files. This class is great for 
those of you that are using the REALdb in applications you're 
distributing to others.
The conversion tool and class are available on our ftp site:
<ftp://ftp.realsoftware.com/Tools/REALdbConvertorMac.sit>
<ftp://ftp.realsoftware.com/Tools/REALdbConvertorWin32.zip>
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Geoff Perlman
President and CEO
REAL Software, Inc.