Live briefing
Everything about DBase
Database management system
dBase was one of the first database management systems for microcomputers and the most successful in its day. The dBase system included the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language that tied all of these components together. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DBaseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Peat-DBase v.1: a compiled database of global peat depth measurementsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Assessing Current Periodical Use at a Science and Engineering Library: A dBase III+ ApplicationCited 12 times
- Go sideways: XBaseA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Paradox (database)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Assessing Current Periodical Use at a Science and Engineering Library: A dBase III+ Application
dBASE II — Library use of a microcomputer database management system
KBase: A customizable tool for building DBase-compatible knowledge-based systems
Ashton Tate's dBASE II as a patient-index manager
dBase to CDS/ISIS: a program to convert data from dBase/foxBase to CDS/ISIS
SPEARMEN-a dBase program for computation and testing of Spearman rank correlation coefficient distributions
A DBASE III program that performs significance testing for the Kappa coefficient
Fiscal control of serials using dBase III+
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)A. Rushton · 1986
Mastering today's softwareEdward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker · 1992
Introducing ComputersRobert H. Blissmer · 1988
Learning to use microcomputer applicationsGary B. Shelly · 1992
Four software toolsTim Duffy · 1986
Everyman's database primerRobert A. Byers · 1982
Computers and information processingSteven L. Mandell, Mandell · 1987
Application softwareDennis P. Curtin · 1990
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- XBase xBase is the generic term for all programming languages that derive from the original dBASE (Ashton-Tate) programming language and database formats. These…
- Paradox (database) Paradox is a relational database management system currently published by Corel Corporation. It was originally released for MS-DOS by Ansa Software, and…
- FoxPro FoxPro is a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and database management system (DBMS), and it is also an object-oriented programming…
- .dbf The .dbf file extension represents the dBase database file. The file type was introduced in 1983 with dBASE II. The file structure has evolved to include…
- Ashton-Tate Ashton-Tate Corporation was a US-based software company best known for developing the dBASE database application and later acquiring Framework from the…
- R:Base R:BASE (or RBASE) is a relational database program for the PC created by Wayne Erickson in 1981. Erickson and his brother, Ron Erickson, incorporated the…
- Lotus Symphony (MS-DOS) Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on the MS-DOS operating systems…
- Clarion (programming language) Clarion is a commercial, proprietary, fourth-generation programming language (4GL), multi-paradigm, programming language and integrated development environment…