Comments for Peoplesoft and SQR

Comment on About by Mutyala Rao

Mutyala Rao — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:36:05 +0000

Thanks Steve. Good portal about SQR. You know of any open-source tools that can create a flow chart for a given SQR?

Cheers,
Rao.

Comment on Bad SQL Redesigned by administrator

administrator — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:39:55 +0000

Thanks for your note, Hardeep. Here’s more than you probably want to know about Convoy, from my SQR Timeline articles last December.

In 1997, Convoy Corporation of Emeryville, California introduced Convoy/DM (data migration). It was a software product that generated SQR ETL (extract, transform, and load data) programs, running on Windows NT, Unix, AS/400, and MVS servers. Convoy was founded in 1993 as an independent project management software reseller.

June 1999: New Era of Networks Inc. (NEON) of Denver, Colorado agreed to acquire Convoy for about $42 million in stock. Convoy’s CEO John Valencia became a Senior Vice President of NEON. Convoy had had $10.4 million in revenue for fiscal year ended March 31, 1999.

In third quarter 2000, NEON posted record revenues and earnings by selling software to other companies in exchange for equity in those companies; booking the sales as non-cash revenue. When this was disclosed, NEON stock dropped over 50% on November 21, 2000. In June 2001, Sybase completed acquisition of NEON in an exchange of stock worth about $373 million – a decline of 91% from NEON’s 2000 high.

So, if anything remains of Convoy/DM, you’ll find it at Sybase. The only other SQR code generator I know is Rwiz from a company called “Enterprise Information Resources,” but I think it generates report programs. There are other ETL products unrelated to SQR; I recommend you search the web for that acronym.

Update: You should also investigate SQRIntegrator.

Comment on Bad SQL Redesigned by Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:46:56 +0000

Hi,

Interesting blog that I stumbled upon today – didnt know people were still writing about PeopleSoft. Have a question: there used to be a tool called Convoy for autogenerating the code for interface SQRs. I am unable to find a download. Any similar tool that you are aware of?

Invite you to visit my blog http://blog.hardeep.name

Regards
Hardeep

Comment on 8 Special And Great SQR Features by administrator

administrator — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:22:37 +0000

The puzzle was to write the best code to count commas in a string. The rules for formatting names may be set differently in each organization. Consistency makes it easier to write programs to parse the names and makes the name sorts more predictable.

Comment on About by administrator

administrator — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:17:18 +0000

I have considered it but so far my customers haven’t needed the power that SQR2XML seems to offer. Thank you for the link; people should take a look.

Comment on SQR Program File Names by administrator

administrator — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:10:25 +0000

Check my article, Never Fear A Database Refresh Again.

Comment on SQR Program File Names by Anthony Gaudioso

Anthony Gaudioso — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:17:56 +0000

How can to kick off another SQR process from within a SQR?

Thanks
Tony

Comment on About by David Vandiver

David Vandiver — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:08:33 +0000

In response to your SQR to Excel article, have you considered using SQR2XML? It is a sourceforge project (free and open source). It allows a developer to call procedures from an SQC library, and the output is rich Excel output, complete with colors, fonts, multiple tabs, and formulas.

Project: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sqr2xml

Comment on 8 Special And Great SQR Features by little

little — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:02:13 +0000

The Name “Smith Jr., John A. ” is right?

Comment on Welcome to the Peoplesoft SQR Blog by little

little — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:16:58 +0000

It’s really a wonderful blog about SQR.