Pervasive Updates, Service Packs and Support:

 

Updates and Service Packs (general)

 

Latest V10 (Summit), 9 and V8 service packs:

Summit V10 updates

V9 SP3 release 9.71 (includes SP1 and SP2; 9.5 must be installed first; update 1, 9.7 rel. November 2008; update 2, 9.71 rel. April 2009)

V9 SP2 release 9.5 May 2006 (SP2 update 1, Nov 2007; update 2 i.e. 9.52 June 2008 is included in 9.71)

V9 SP1 release 9.1 June 2005 (included in 9.7)

V8 SP3 release 8.7 August 2005 (V8 users only need to install this SP to update their system)

Note: V8 is no longer be supported by Pervasive (as of Jan. 1, 2007)

 

Pervasive product support lifecycle

Pervasive status codes

Index page to Pervasive documentation

Getting Started - 9.5 workgroup engine

Component zone

Understanding Backup Methodologies for PSQL Data (Aug 2009 tech tip)

Pervasive Community

Pervasive announced the release of Summit (V10) on September 18, 2007. Summit press release

Pervasive announced the release of V9 on March 15, 2005. V9 press release. V9 started shipping on March 22, 2005.

If you are updating to Advanced Accounting 7i or if you are currently running a TAS/Advanced Accounting 6.1, 5.1, 5.0, 4.0 or even 3.0 system, please read the above FAQ document. Any legacy BTRIEVE.EXE system could potentially be improved using Pervasive Software in addition to Windows-based apps written in TAS 6, TAS 7, TAS 7i, Clarion or other programming languages.

Since the summer of 2002, after having supported Btrieve (now Pervasive) based systems for nearly 15 years, we became a Pervasive reseller initially at the urging of one or our customers. Thanks to the input from another customer, we realized that Pervasive.SQL was an exceptional solution for any of the legacy systems running BTRIEVE.EXE (5.10a) or BREQUEST/SERVER, including any system based on TAS 4.x, TAS 5.0, TAS 5.1x running in "DOS" mode or Advanced Accounting 4.x, Advanced Accounting 5.0 or Advanced Accounting 5.1x.

In the DOS-based era which obviously continued into the Windows era, we regularly worked with systems using BTRIEVE.EXE (the most notable being 5.10a which remains in use today) and in BREQUEST/BSERVER implementations, often in wide area network systems. In so doing, we had to acquire some level of expertise with the maintenance, repair, recovery and back-up of these systems even though our primary focus relates to commercial and private software development/programming services.

In August of 1996, Business Tools released Advanced Accounting 5.1 which had a Windows mode using a 16-bit version of Btrieve. Still running today, we support it on systems running Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

In 1997, using the Smithware ActiveX Controls for Btrieve, we interfaced to Windows-based Btrieve via Visual Basic 4 and 5, for an in-house and commercial systems. Our experience with 16-bit and 32-bit Btrieve 6.15 began at this point. We also used Smithware Crystal Reports and later other versions of Crystal Reports.

We began to have experience with systems using Pervasive.SQL (then version 7) in about 1999 and later in resolving conflicts created with Pervasive.SQL 7 installations and DOS/BTRIEVE.EXE systems.

Starting in late 2000 and initially deployed by March of 2001, we completed the first ever TAS 6 system which interfaced innately with Pervasive.SQL data files. Meanwhile we also supported and provided commercial and custom programming for an accounting system that used Pervasive 2000/2000i.

By the summer of 2001, we completed and released on behalf of a third party the first commercial software system written in TAS 6. It used the Btrieve 6.15 engine and we researched and wrote extensive documentation relating to all of the required Microkernel settings (Btrieve 6.15 does not automatically configure itself like Pervasive does).

We have been involved in creating some Peachtree interfaces (Peachtree used the 6.15 Btrieve record manager through 2006 and thereafter switched to Pervasive 9). We have considerable experience resolving Pervasive.SQL and Btrieve 6.15 conflicts as a result (and in working with recent Peachtree releases that create hybrid Pervasive 9.1 installs).

Meanwhile we deployed fully GUI applications written in TAS 6 that interface with Advanced Accounting 5.1 using Btrieve 6.15 and with DBA Software (which uses Pervasive.SQL as its record manager), and later with TAS Premier 7i.

Pervasive.SQL is now the database engine of choice for use with Advanced Accounting 6.1, 7i and higher (published exclusively and supported by us) as well as all applications written in the TAS 5.1 (and 4.0 and 5.0), TAS 6 and Addsum TAS 7 releases. Pervasive 2000i, V8 , V9 and V10 have all worked worked very well with our applications.

While most of our customers are located elsewhere, Addsum was for many years the only VAR channel for Pervasive software located in the state of Utah.

As of November 30, 2008, due to contractual channel agreements, Pervasive was unable to continue to offer product discounts to VARS like us. Because our focus has always been on the support and consulting of Pervasive and Btrieve products used in conjunction with specific products that we directly support and for which we provide computer programming services, this means that nothing really changes. For suggestions as to vendors from which new, upgrade and count increase products can be purchased, please contact us. And we can continue to assist you with implementation/migration and general consulting with respect to configuration and other technical issues relating to your Btrieve/Pervasive record manager engine.