Course Name
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Who Should Attend |
Pre-requisites |
What you will Learn |
Content |
Duration |
Zim Basic
Database Handling |
New Zim Developers |
Basic programming logic, database basics |
How to use the Entity-relationship (ER) data model; differences between the Relational and the E-R models; implement, create and maintain Zim databases; understand the Zim architecture; create the object dictionary components; utilize Zim commands to manipulate data, the serial interface and program flow. This is a hands-on course.
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Relational and Entity-Relationship (ER) models- basics; Database component objects (entity sets, relationships, roles, documents, etc); Database handling commands; macro and procedure program structures; program flow commands; application programming; database creation and structure |
3 days
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| Zim Graphical User Interface |
Current Zim TUI developers who attended the Migration course (4) and new developers who attended the Zim Basic course |
Zim Basic |
How to implement complete user graphic interfaces; create and use the interface widgets; use of the TUI interface widgets and their restrictions; create tabbed forms; program event driven modal and non-modal applications; This is a hands-on course. |
Graphical interface structure and components; navigation, focus, availability and selection concepts; creation and use of Window, Menu, Form and Display objects; dealing with the Zim graphical widgets and their behavior; using events, actions and Zim control structures; tabbed forms creation and use; modal and non-modal application structures, where and how to use them; controlling Zim parallel processes; inter-process communication; graphical interface utilities
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2 days
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| Zim Advanced Techniques |
Current Zim developers, DBAs and new developers who attended the Zim Basic course. This is a very important course for database administrators and developers involved with performance tuning.
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Zim programming knowledge |
Zim database files internal structure; data and index access mechanisms; Zim lock mechanism, the zimlock.zim file physical and virtual structure; Zim data access strategy and optimization; how to use the configuration file options related to locks and data access
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The Zim database structure; data files internal structure; data tree and index tree; the three different access mechanisms; access costs; transactions and locks; EIO and Btree operations; configuration parameter use related to transactions; multi range and large file locks; the Locktrace option and its use; database auditing and data recovery; database access strategy; database access optimization
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2 days
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| Migrating Zim TUI-GUI |
Current Zim TUI developers (versions 4.x) |
Previous Zim 4.x programming knowledge |
The main differences between the 4.x and the versions 5.7 and Aria Zim; how to migrate from a TUI interface to a GUI interface; anticipate and avoid possible problems |
New concepts and their counterpart in the 4.x version; events versus transmission keys; the control structures Event, ThisForm, ThisWindow, etc; New objects, components and functions; Event driven applications versus the traditional programming; migration strategies; migrating just the application look; migrating look and feel; Behavioral differences between versions; using version 4.x databases with Zim applications
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1 day
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| ActiveX Objects and Zim |
Zim developers in general |
Previous Zim knowledge and new developers who attended the Zim Interface course |
ActiveX objects basics, how to instantiate in place and link ActiveX objects and how to interact with these objects from within Zim |
Components; what it is and how it works COM/DCOM; OLE objects; ActiveX objects; in place and linked activation; methods, properties and object events; Zim support to ActiveX objects; Zim OLE widgets for ActiveX objects creation and uses; handling the interface and object events in Zim; using ActiveX object examples
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1 day
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| Zim Connectivity |
Zim developers in general |
Previous Zim knowledge and new developers who attended the Zim basic course |
How you can work in a client-server architecture using the Zim Integrated Server; two and three tier client-server architecture; how to access and update a Zim database from the Internet using Zim CGI; how to access Zim databases using ASP (Active Server Pages) and Zim ODBC
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Host-based versus client-server architectures – differences, advantages and disadvantages; Zim Integrated Server (ZIS) basics; Installing and configuring ZIS; Preparing the target (server) database and the clients; Starting and stopping the Zim Server; Simultaneous multiple server; Creating Zim Server new instances; migrating to client-server notes and recommendations; Using server Documents and the $ServerFunction; Zim CGI basics and components; Installing and configuring the Zim CGI; Starting and stopping the ZIMCGI; Zim and HTML interface programming examples; Transaction and session oriented applications; Security layers; The ZIS ODBC driver basics; using the ZIS ODBC to access Zim databases from different third party applications; Using ZIS ODBC to access Zim from ASP applications
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2 days
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| System Administration and Maintenance |
Zim database administrators and developers in general |
Previous Zim knowledge (basics) and operating system |
The Zim components; how to manage Zim DB environments; how to manage and relocate files; how to minimize transaction conflicts by database fine-tuning; Zim database backup and recovery
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Zim components; setting up Zim databases and environments; Zim file use, distribution and structure; transactions and lock mechanisms; managing production and development environments; transaction audit files; database manual and automatic recovery; available configuration options and their use; Zim utilities to manage databases; reorganizing Zim databases; Zim terminal definitions – zimtcap utility in Unix.
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2 days
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| Zim Strategy Analyzer |
Zim developers in general |
Previous Zim language and architecture knowledge |
How Zim accesses the database files, how it selects the way tables are accessed, and how to optimize this access
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Data access basics; the Zim Strategy Analyzer basics and algorithm; examples of use and how to optimize data access
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1 day
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| Zim Object Manager |
Zim developers in general and database administrators |
Previous Zim language and object dictionary architecture knowledge |
What is the Zim Object Manager, how it works and why you should use it |
Zim Object Manager basics; object properties and keywords; object dependency; object selection criteria; locking objects for update; object import and export procedure; using the shadow object dictionary; team development with Zim Object Manager
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1 day
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