The Pervasive Community

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A variety of free resources are available to help you find answers and help you feel connected to the worldwide Pervasive community.

Webinars

Pervasive offers a regular series of Webinars and other training resources to help you maximize your skill and value in the Pervasive community. For detailed information, visit the following URL:

http://www.pervasive.com/training/

Knowledge Base

Pervasive's Knowledge Base (http://support.pervasive.com/kb/) provides customers access to technical information on installation, configuration, component management, product defects, and answers to the most frequently asked questions (FAQs).

Newsletters

The Pervasive InfoAlert newsletter is published weekly and distributed directly via e-mail to Pervasive's OEM Partners, international distributors, VARs, support contract customers, and other strategic customers. It contains the latest information on beta cycles, current topics, FYIs, Q&As, product defects, and enhancement requests. The information found here can also be found as technical tips, FAQs, and technical papers on the Support section of Pervasive's Web site (http://www.pervasive.com/support), but this pro-active communication gives partners up-to-the-minute information.

The TechWire support newsletter is a free monthly service available to all customers. Published by our support staff, TechWire delivers information about developing and using Pervasive products, including Knowledgebase solutions, new articles, webinar schedules, and much more.

To subscribe to these and other resources, visit our subscription center at:

http://www.pervasive.com/support/subscription.asp

Updates

The "Updates" page on the web site contains downloadable updates and patches to our product offerings as well as additional debugging tools, documentation, third party tools, and beta releases.

http://www.pervasive.com/support/updates/

Developer Relations

Pervasive Software strives to maintain close ties to developers using Pervasive.SQL for their database solutions. The Developer Center Web site is where you can find what you need to make developing applications with Pervasive database technology faster, easier, and more powerful. Sample code, tutorials, access to our expansive technical library, and links to third-party tools and utilities are just a few of the practical resources you'll find at:
http://www.pervasive.com/developerzone

Message Forum

Pervasive hosts DevTalk, a message forum provided for customers and users to share ideas and ask questions about Pervasive products and services.

Access to DevTalk is available to anyone, but to post a message, you must register for free as a Pervasive Web site user.

http://www.pervasive.com/devtalk

Newsgroup

Pervasive Software is represented in the newsgroup community at comp.databases.btrieve. The newsgroup is managed by the end-user community, posting and answering questions as they see fit.