Sybase Inc is beta testing its Report Workbench, described as an interactive development environment for creating, processing, and maintaining reports for Sybase relational database applications, and the latest addition to Sybase’s windows-based SQL Toolset for SQL development. The Report Workbench is designed for client-server architecture, and the reports it creates can be integrated with applications developed using Sybase’s APT Workbench. Reports are stored in the SQL Server, and developers can design them so that they update an account balance field in the database. Other features include a visual layout editor with editing capabilities, a formatting capability, a report processing language and a runtime version. The Report Workbench supports both character and graphic workstations, and is available on Sun Microsystems equipment and VAX/VMS machines. It will be generally available in October costing between $950 and $82,080.
