[DUG] Why Interbase not FB

[Richard Vowles]

This is clearly one of the areas of education - you can't do this if you
are using anything but the most basic features of FB and IB. Seriously -
you can't. You may use those basic features, but many others don't. I
use IB features - changing is a lot of work. I don't feel the need to
use FB - I can use IB and I get a whole load of things that FB doesn't
offer. On the other hand, you get a free database that does what you
want but you stick to the lowest common demoninator.

You use FB, you probably haven't used IB for some time. Seriously, IB
has changed. You don't need to be so self confident that I'm wrong - I'm
not.

Richard 


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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Karl @ Work
Sent: Friday, 2 June 2006 11:10 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] Why Interbase not FB

> No, I'm not planning on doing any promotion of FB - and this is 
> particularly important.

I'm sure.

> FB and IB are _not_ the same database any longer, they are not only 
> incompatible at the file format layer, they have forked in critical 
> functionality as well. How FB limits the rows coming back is different

> to IB for example, and there are many more examples, especially at the

> API layer (admin management, transaction management, SQL 
> functionality, etc)
> 
> If you go with FB, you have almost blocked yourself off from IB as 
> much as if you had gone with another database.

Oh please.