Welcome to Navvy

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <P><STRONG>Hit Counter</STRONG> <IMG SRC="http://uk2.net/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=2&dd=D&frgb=255;215;0|df=navvy_org"> </P> <P>Welcome to the Navvy(tm) home-page - databases made easy.</P> <UL> <LI>Browse your database schema in an intuitive manner. </LI> <LI>Automatically generate SQL queries using your mouse</LI> <LI>Navigate to related data using embedded 'handles'. Only fetch child records you are interested in - not the whole join.</LI> <LI>Modify your data and save it.</LI> </UL> <P><A HREF="mailto:comments@navvy.org"><FONT SIZE="1">Contact us at comments@navvy.org</FONT></A> </P> <P><STRONG>What is Navvy?</STRONG></P> <P>Navvy is a new patent-applied for group of concepts in database access. On-screen elements represent data from all kinds of data source from RDBMS's to object, hierarchical and semi-structured database.</P> <P>Navvy enables many queries to be implemented without any coding. Data can be entered modified and deleted. </P> <P>Links between records in relational, object, or any other kind of databases can be followed to browse and modify data interactively.</P> <P>Each record has a handle. The handle has a series of actions associated with it. The default action is selected by a left-click. The other actions are selected by right-clicking. If a record has just been read, the default action is to 'Close' it which removes it from the screen. If you change the data in the record, the handle may change to 'Save' (depending on the Navvy implementation).</P> <P>Record handles can be embedded within other records. For example a foreign-key link to another record (or set of records) is represented by an embedded record handle or list handle respectively. Selecting this embedded handle fetches the related data and displays it inside the outer record. This ability enables you to navigate around the data you are interested in, rather than building complex join queries which bring back rows you aren't interested in.</P> <P>Records appear on a Navvy grid. The grid is capable of displaying different kinds of records together on the same grid. </P> <P>Apart from the grid, Navvy usually has a traditional hierarchical data tree with important modifications that allow users to navigate data schemas and build queries without keyboard input, or with minimal keyboard input.</P> <P>The on-screen representation of data and schemas need not relate to the underlying data as Navvy is fully programmable.</P> <P><STRONG>What is Navvy1?</STRONG></P> <P>Navvy1 is our first offering. It interfaces the Navvy to your ODBC data sources, enabling you to navigate your schema and generate queries with minimal keyboard input. Results of initial queries can act as a staging post for fetching related data via relational foreign keys.</P> <P>Data can be modified or deleted from the database.</P> <P></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG><A HREF="looks_like.htm">What does Navvy1 look like?</A></STRONG> </P> <P><STRONG><A HREF="cost.htm" TARGET="content_frame">Does Navvy cost anything?</A></STRONG></P> <P><A HREF="register.htm"><STRONG>register</STRONG></A> You don't need to pay to register. We suggest you try the tool and register with your comments when you feel ready.</P> <P><A HREF="download.htm"><STRONG>Download </STRONG>Navvy1 for Windows(R)</A> </P> <P><STRONG><A HREF="pay2.htm">Make a $10, £5, 7 euro donation and get bugfixes and the next major version free</A></STRONG> You can pay using PayPal or credit cards.</P> <P><STRONG><A HREF="Navvy1 Manual.zip" TARGET="content_frame">Download the manual</A></STRONG> Navvy1 has a help-file which contains most of the manual. The manual contains a guided tour as well. You may want to download the manual to see what Navvy1 can do before downloading it. You may be interested in Navvy technology but not have a database server yet.</P> <P><STRONG>Who should download Navvy1?</STRONG></P> <P>Navvy works on Microsoft Windows platforms . Anybody with a database server such as Oracle(r), or SQL Server(tm) will find Navvy useful. It is less useful with desktop databases such as Access (tm), as they provide</P> <P><STRONG>What can Navvy1 do? </STRONG></P> <P>Navvy1's capabilities are limited by the level of ODBC support of your data source. When pointed at RDBMS servers such as SQL Server® and Oracle®, you can navigate the schema via foreign-keys and generate complicated queries using the intuitive data tree control without having to type in SQL. Following this you can update records on-screen and save them to the database On standalone databases such as Paradox and Access, Navvy can browse the data schema and generate simple queries that don't involve joins, but the data will be read-only. Our next development effort will be to bring server-like capacity to these databases. Navvy represents both ends of foreign keys as record handles, or lists of record handles.. </P> <P><STRONG>Who is Navvy1 intended for?</STRONG> </P> <P>The Navvy1 interface is very intuitive, so it is aimed at novice users. If you haven't got a server-type RDBMS like SQL Server®, MySQL or Oracle ®, then the capabilities are not very inspiring Navvy uses ODBC. Set-up of new DSN's is slightly complicated. </P> <P> </P> <P>Oracle is a trademark of Oracle Corpo...</P> <P>SQL Server is a rrrr</P> <P><STRONG>How safe is installation of Navvy1?</STRONG></P> <P></P> <P><STRONG>Does Navvy cost anything?</STRONG></P> <P>Navvy is shareware/donation ware. We ask for a $10, £5 or 7 euro contribution. This entitles you to the next version (intended price around £20GBP) free.. If you use it without a donation, we are still interested in your comments.</P> </BODY>