RTD.DB User Interface
The RTD.DB main window looks like this:
You can find the application icon in the system tray also.
Menu File
- Open Configuration File
- Opens the RTD.DB.exe.config file. You can check or edit application settings.
- Open Connection Manager
- Opens Connection Manager to edit connection strings in a visual mode.
- Open Configuration Editor
- Opens RTD.DB Database Configuration Editor to edit database configuration tables and symbols in a visual mode.
- Open Symbol Helper
- Opens Symbol Helper to extract stock and option symbols from RTD formulas or web pages and paste symbols into database tables.
- Exit
- Stops all the running services and closes the application.
Menu Operations
- Start Services
- Starts updating databases with real-time data.
- Pause Services
- Stops the timer that starts updating databases.
Use this button to stop updating temporarily. To start updating, click the Start button. - Stop Services
- Stops all the running services.
- Reload Database Data
- Saves current data to databases and reloads data from databases.
Use this button to reload data when you add new tickers to database tables. - Save Data to Database
- Saves current data to databases immediately.
Use this button, if the services have been paused, or you need to update the data before the next timer event.
Menu Help
- Help
- Displays the local help.
- Online Help
- Opens the online help web page.
- Technical Support
- Opens the support web page.
- RTD.DB Website
- Opens the product web page at the official website.
- Register Product
- Displays the Register Product wizard.
- Buy License
- Opens the web page to start purchasing.
- Check Updates
- Opens the web page to download updates.
- About RTD.DB
- Displays the About RTD.DB dialog box.
Table Columns
- Status Image
- The image indicates table status: green or red.
- Table
- The column displays database table name.
- Rows
- The column displays loaded row count.
- Pending
- The column displays a number of pending rows.
- Last Topics
- The column displays a number of topics that the real-time server returns on the last data refresh.
- Last Notify
- The column displays the time of the first data change notification from the real-time server after the last data refresh.
- Last Refresh
- The column displays the start time of the getting changed data from the real-time server.
The period between the notification and getting the changed data depends on the RefreshTimerInterval value. - Last Save
- The column displays the time when the last data have been saved to a database.
The period between the notification and this time shows the maximum delay for real-time data in a database. - Status
- The column displays the status of real-time server and database operations.
- Topics
- The column displays a number of topics connected to the real-time server.
Usually, this is the row count multiplied by real-time column count. - MSPR
- The column displays average speed of saving data to a database in milliseconds per row (MSPR).
- ProgID
- The column displays RTD server ProgIDs or DDE service names.
- Server
- The column displays database servers.
- Database
- The column displays database names.