                        Database Web Explorer v1.03

Introduction
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Database Web Explorer is Web-based database manager and 
intended for work with DBMS in Internet/Intranet  networks, 
using as the client-application a usual Web-browser. 

Using Database Web Explorer you can:

 - Connect to any DBMS, supporting ODBC connection 
   (tested with InterBase, MS SQL Server, Access, Oracle)
 - View names of tables and stored procedures in database
 - View definitions of fields of tables in database 
 - View data in tables in database
 - Add, edit and delete record in tables in database
 - Execute SQL-queries to DBMS
 - Export results of queries to MS Excel 

Requirements
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Server

 - Operational system Microsoft Windows 2000/XP 
 - Internet Information Server 5.0 or above
 - Components of data access Microsoft Data Access 
   Components 2.5 (ADO 2.5) or above
 - Microsoft Excel 2000 or above. Optional. For export
   results of queries 

Client

 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above
 - Microsoft Excel 2000 or above. Optional. For export
   results of queries  

What's new in version 1.03
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- Added icons in operations menu
- Names of tables, fields and stored procedures now
are displayed as tree
- At viewing data in table are displayed total count of 
records in table
- At viewing data in table are added filter and sorting of
records in table

Installation and configuration
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Uninstall previous version of Database Web Explorer from 
your machine.

Unpack archive DWEv1_03.zip in any of directories on your 
hard disk, start a file setup.exe and follow instructions 
of the wizard of installation. 
           
After finishing of the setup program create virtual 
directory for Database Web Explorer on the Web-server. 
For this purpose do the following actions: 

 1. Press button "Start". Choose "Settings"->"Control 
    panel". Further go in "Administrative Tools" and start 
    "Internet Services Manager". At the left in a tree find 
    "Default Web Site". Press inscriptions the right 
    button of the mouse and choose "New"->"Virtual 
    directory". 
 2. Pass on the wizard and fill in the necessary 
    information. Set name of the virtual directory, specify 
    a path to HTML-files of Database Web Explorer. They 
    are in subdirectory "html" in the directory to 
    installation Database Web Explorer (by default 
    "C:\DBWebExplorer\html"). Select and set access 
    permissions "read" and "run scripts". 

Further start Internet Explorer and try connect to Database 
Web Explorer. For this purpose enter the following address: 

http://<server_name>/<alias_name>, where 

<server_name> - name of the Web-server where it is 
installation Database Web Explorer,
<alias_name> - name of the created virtual directory 
on the Web-server 

After that you should see the window of browser shared into 
three parts with the invitation to connection to database. 
In the list "Data Sources" should be displayed all system 
ODBC data sources present on the server.

If connection was not possible, check up all you made 
correctly. 

On client in Internet Explorer should be enabled cookies 
and scripts.

If you used previous version of Database Web Explorer, and 
it was bought and registered, and you have file dwe_reg.reg 
with the information of registration, start this file and 
accept information to registry Windows.

Technical support
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If you require technical support, please send complete 
details about the problem you are having to 
support@dbwebexplorer.swrus.com. Include the version of 
Database Web Explorer, any error messages, version of 
Internet Information Server and operational system, type 
and version of DBMS, version of ODBC driver you are using 
and description of actions which will result to problem.

Users who finds any interesting bugs can get 
FREE registration key for Database Web Explorer.

Changes history
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version 1.02
First public release.

version 1.03
- Added icons in operations menu
- Names of tables, fields and stored procedures now
are displayed as tree
- At viewing data in table are displayed total count of 
records in table
- At viewing data in table are added filter and sorting of
records in table

Anatoly A. Sadovsky (c) 2002-2003. All rights reserved.
http://dbwebexplorer.swrus.com