PICK/Multivalue 101
by Jeff Klawiter
Wed, Oct 01, 2008
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If you are thinking, "What the hell is PICK?", you are not alone. This Database/Runtime/Operating System has been around for over 40 years and is still going strong. Many companies don't realize what they are running, only that it has served them well for decades. Companies like IBM are bringing the system into a new age with U2. This session will cover the fundamentals of PICK, how data is stored, accessed and manipulated. This system is seeing it's features resurge these days in the form of Multivalue columns in Access 2007 and CLR in SQL Server. Join in on learning the fun and pain of developing in this widespread but often forgotten system.
About the Author
Jeff Klawiter is a Senior .NET Developer with Sierra Bravo Corporation. Starting out in high school as a PHP developer for PhotoSource International in Osceola Wisconsin. He continued on to run his own PC repair business, designing sites for local companies, Twin Cities bands and a few international bands. He moved into .NET programming and landed a job at Sierra Bravo in 2004. At Sierra Bravo he was introduced to PICK/Multivalue. He has worked on many projects including barcode scanning .NET CF Warehouse Management Solutions, ERP WinForms applications and PHP/ASP.NET sites that use PICK/Multivalue as their backend. He has consulted with a few fortune 500 companies assisting with PICK/Multivalue and .NET integration. Including training developers to use IBM's UniObjects.NET for communication with their PICK/Multivalue U2 products.