Database browsing, analysis and manipulation

Manifold® Database Commander™ is a universal command and control console for working with almost any database. Commander allows you to see your data and relationships in the data with greater power and ease of use than ever before.

Database Commander is not just some dumb little database browser: it contains a new approach to understanding databases of spectacular sophistication and power, all tamed for your ease of use within a sensible, point-and-click interface.

Beta tester's comment: "Again a great product in Manifold-like manner! I did not expect such a complex application behind the easy-to-use interface." See the Testimonials page for more user comments.

Manifold Database Commander introduces SEVEN major new innovations never before seen in database work.

For a visual tour of Database Commander via screen shot thumbnails, visit our Sample Database Commander Screens page. The sample screens page shows major dialogs and cool functions in thumbnails for fast loading. Click on a thumbnail to see a more detailed view.

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	1	"More Like This" - Click on record or cell and ask for "more like this" and Commander will find more like that. Commander knows what fields you are looking at as well as what the actual contents are in the database. An electric mix of artificial intelligence and automated "fuzzy" searching goes on behind the scenes to make life easier for you. Example: Find more records like that customer in France.
	2	"Click-back" Charting™ - Database Commander creates "live" charts where the items in the chart are "handles" back into the data. Click on a bar in a Commander bar chart to see the records that make up that bar. They'll automatically be highlighted back in the table. CTRL-click on several bars to highlight multiple bars at once. This works with other chart styles too! Example: Find all the shipments in the "Wednesday" bar in the bar chart.
	3	Decision Support System - Real life database searches involve flexible criteria with multiple tradeoffs. Manifold Decision Support System makes it easy to search databases using flexible criteria, just like in real life. This easy to use system uses point-and-click "presets" to make it easy to specify profiles such as "average", "high" and so on. It's the most advanced flexible search capability ever offered for database searching. Example: Find US Counties where Hispanic income is "high" and White income is "low".
	4	Active Columns™ - Write any formula in Formula Builder and give it a name. It instantly appears in the table as a column with that name at the top and is automatically computed "on the fly" for each record. It's like a spreadsheet, but easier, and it's set up to work with databases. Better still, the formula can use any Visual Basic scripting or ActiveX construct, such as Functions and more. Click on the thumbnail for an easy to understand example. Example: Add a "discounted price" column to the table.
	5	"Click-back" Analysis Bars - Analysis bars report the results of a statistical, logical or math operation at the bottom of a table view. Clicking on the Highlight button in an Analysis bar will instantly highlight all records that are picked out by that analysis. For example, an Analysis bar might report there are 780 records with a Quantity field greater than 30. Click on the Highlight bar and you will see each such record highlighted.
	6	Transformer Toolbar - Transformer makes it easy to change data throughout an entire field at once. Example: Increase the "Unit Price" field in all records by 10%... instantly, without any programming or need to write update queries in SQL. Transformer can copy one field to another, even transforming field types (such as numeric to text or text to numeric) "on the fly" during the copy. Over 100 operations provide a rich set of point-and-click commands to apply to text, numbers or even dates. Copy just the month or year field out of a date, for example, with a single click.
	7	Selection Combinations - Selection is at once the easiest and among the most subtle new ideas in Database Commander. The Selection is a table view pane that opens up underneath the main table view. Records that are highlighted in the main view can be placed in the Selection as well using Replace, Add, Subtract and other combinations. Because records can be highlighted in sophisticated ways in the main view, this means that the Selection can be a highly refined and sophisticated choice of records from the database. Commander can then transform only those records in the selection, analyze only them, chart them, or even save the records in the Selection to a new data file. The first example shows how to add records to the Selection. The second example shows how the other combination buttons (Replace, Add, Subtract, Invert and Intersect) work as well.

See a Case Study of "harvesting" a competitor's dealer database from the web. The Case Study presents a step-by-step procedure with thumbnail illustrations (click to see full-sized screen shots) of harvesting data from a web site, converting the dealer list into a handy database, and making formatting conversions for easy use.

Manifold Commander revolutionizes data manipulation for any database, even text file or HTML databases. No more update queries! Over 200 functions can change data throughout Tables or Queries, convert fields and present statistics, with point-and-click choice boxes automating every move. All you need is Manifold Database Commander. It's easy, it's fun, and it will save you time and money! Hey, that's great! Only $145

Easy Math - Have you ever needed to change data throughout an entire database column? Perhaps you've got a Table that gives Lengths and Widths of products in inches and you need to convert into centimeters. You'll need to multiply each value by a conversion factor. The usual way of doing this is to import into a SQL-capable database package and then write an update query. No way! Use Database Commander and simply point-and-click to make the changes you need. Cool!

Database Commander is shipping today from our Online Store or Telephone Orders as a Download + CD product. This means that you get an immediate email back to you providing download instructions and unlock code so you can download and begin using Database Commander right away. In addition, we'll ship Database Commander to you in the CD version.

Manifold OLAP Connection™ connects to your OLAP server using OLE DB for OLAP.

If you have SQL Server OLAP Services or a .cub file created with SQL Server OLAP Services, you can install and use Manifold OLAP Connection. However, if you do not have OLAP Services, it does not make sense to install OLAP Connection.

Manifold OLAP Connection has three advantages over typical OLAP browsers:

A Steal at Twice the Price! - Manifold Database Commander is priced at only $145: that's the best deal ever in database software! Still unsure about Database Commander? Download the Trial Edition today and take a closer look.

Visit the Manifold.net Online Store right now to order Database Commander. Database Commander may be purchased and downloaded within minutes for instant gratification!

Manifold Database Commander runs in Windows '95, Windows '98, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server, and in Windows 2000. Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 4 or greater must be installed in the machine. Any other Internet browser may be used as your default browser; however, the Database Commander installation uses the IE installation to make sure that your Windows operating system includes all required ActiveX and other scripting components used in the Formula Builder and Active Columns system. See the About IE Installation Requirements page for more information on this requirement. Get IE5 free!