NEW ADD-ON TOOLKIT FOR LABWINDOWS/CVI CONNECTS TO MORE THAN 20 DATABASE
PACKAGES

Austin, Texas - April 19, 1995 - National Instruments - The Virtual
Instrumentation Company - has announced an add-on toolkit that connects
Windows PCs running LabWindows/CVI software to more than 20 local or
remote databases. The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit acts as a direct
communications link to databases - users can store or fetch data from a
database with easy-to-use, high-level functions, or perform advanced
structured query language (SQL) operations using the low-level functions
in the package.

About the LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit

The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit is an add-on library that directly connects
LabWindows/CVI software to local and remote database packages. System
developers can use the powerful graphical user interface (GUI)
capabilities of LabWindows/CVI to create front ends for databases to
present information, or create database back ends using LabWindows/CVI
data acquisition, instrument drivers, and visual development techniques to
populate database tables with vital process, test, or research
information. The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit includes a database engine
capable of creating flat-file databases that users can populate with
information, update and query with indexing, record locking, and
transaction handling. Manufacturing, statistical process control (SPC),
and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems benefit from
the flexibility of the LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit to connect to databases,
facilitating easy multi-application integration with a database as an
information exchange and repository.

The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit is compatible with the following database
packages:

 - ORACLE6
 - ORACLE7
 - Sybase SQL Server 4
 - Sybase System 10
 - INFORMIX 4, 5
 - INGRES
 - Microsoft SQL Server
 - DB2
 - dBASE
 - FoxBase
 - FoxPro 2.5
 - Clipper
 - Microsoft Excel .XLS files (read only)
 - ASCII Text Files (read only)
 - IBM DB2/2 (DBM)
 - Novell Netware SQL 2.11
 - Paradox 3, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
 - Btrieve 5, 6.x
 - HP ALLBASE/SQL
 - HP IMAGE/SQL
 - PROGRESS 6
 - Teradata
 - IBM SQL/400
 - IBM SQL/DS
 - Gupta SQLBase
 - XDB 2.41, 3.0
 - Any ODBC Database that you own (like Microsoft Access)

Users Get Up-and-Running Quickly

The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit includes a collection of sample programs
that illustrate how users can create database tables, query databases, add
or update records and fetch data from a database from LabWindows/CVI. The
toolkit also includes a dynamic database browser - developed and delivered
in LabWindows/CVI source code. With the browser application, users can
quickly and easily view the contents of any compatible database table.

Test Executive Integration

The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit includes integrated projects that combine
database capabilities with the LabWindows/CVI Test Executive Toolkit.
Therefore, LabWindows/CVI Test Executive Toolkit users can automatically
store test results in a user-specified database format.

About LabWindows/CVI

LabWindows/CVI is an interactive environment for building test and
measurement applications. LabWindows/CVI has a number of visual
development tools that assist users in creating test programs using the
standard ANSI C programming language. LabWindows/CVI includes an
integrated ANSI C compiler, linker, editor, and debugger as well as an
interactive user interface editor within an environment created
specifically for building test programs.

About National Instruments

National Instruments, headquartered in Austin, TX, manufactures software
and hardware products for PCs and workstations that scientists and
engineers worldwide use to build virtual instrumentation systems. These
systems are used for research and industrial applications such as
automated testing, laboratory automation, advanced research, industrial
control, factory automation, physiological monitoring, numerical analysis,
and data visualization.

National Instruments stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System
under the symbol NATI. Further information on National Instruments may be
obtained from the company's SEC filings or by directly contacting the
company's Investor Relations Department at (512) 338-9119.

Pricing, Availability and For More Information

The LabWindows/CVI SQL Toolkit will be available in Q2 1995 for $695. For
more information, contact National Instruments, 6504 Bridge Point Parkway,
Austin, TX 78730-5039, (512) 794-0100. Or call toll free in the U.S. and
Canada at (800) 433-3488, fax (512) 794-8411, e-mail info@natinst.com.
Readers can also access information through the National Instruments
InstrumentationWeb at http://www.natinst.com/.

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