dBase
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Key facts
- Programming language.logo
- DBaseLogo BlackWithRed glass 300.png
- Programming language.paradigm
- Imperative, Declarative
- Programming language.designer
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- Programming language.developer
- C. Wayne Ratliff
- Programming language.latest release version
- dBASE 2019
- Programming language.programming language
- C
- Programming language.operating system
- Microsoft DOSMicrosoft Windows
- Programming language.license
- Proprietary
- Programming language.file format
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- Programming language.influenced by
- RETRIEVE, JPLDIS
- Programming language.influenced
- Clipper, WordTech products, Harbour. FoxBASE+, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, VP-Info
- Programming language.name
- dBase
- Programming language.Prior Owners
- dataBased Intellegence, KSoft, Borland, Ashton-Tate
- Programming language.Products
- dBASE, dbDOS PRO, dBASE CLASSIC, dTransfer, dbfUtilities, dbfExport, dbfImport, dbfCompare, dbfExplorer, dbfInspector
- Programming language.employees
- under 20
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.dbase.com
- Image
- Screenshot of Dbase III Plus.png
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- file extension
- dbf
- inception
- 1979-01-01
- software version identifier
- dBASE® 2019.1
- Commons category
- DBase
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- Ashton-Tate
- dBase III
- Cloning
- dBase IV
- Recent version history
- dBASE product range
- dBase, LLC products
- SQL Utilities
- dBase / xBase programming language
- Programming examples
- File formats
- Reception
- References
- External links
dBase (also stylized 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.
Originally released as Vulcan for PTDOS in 1978, the CP/M port caught the attention of Ashton-Tate in 1980. They licensed it, re-released it as dBASE II, and later ported it to IBM PC computers running DOS. On the PC platform in particular, dBase became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. A major upgrade was released as dBase III and ported to a wider variety of platforms, including UNIX and VMS. By the mid-1980s, Ashton-Tate was one of the "big three" software publishers in the early business-software market,along with Lotus Development and Microsoft.