[DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro

[John Bird]

My understanding was that the chief area that Interbase and Firebird had diverged was in accessing and writing Blob’s – well at about V2 Firebird that was true, the rest being the same.

Does BDE (still installed by D2007and I am sure I saw the installation option for XE2 as well) still access Firebird fine?  Its never been altered so I bet they didn’t downgrade that one!

Last year I was using D2007 and current Firebird using IBQuery and standard datasets with no issues.

Now that Oracle owns MySQL I heard some muttering that the best real open source DB out there is now Firebird – not sure how well Oracle is treating MySQL but going by how they are treating Dalbek (The version of Java Google uses to develop for Android) I would be worried (ie Oracle is trying to sue the pants off Google to get licence fees for Android. Would be like Embarcadero suing the Free Pascal organisation (same language, different compiler)

At the risk of starting a heated discussion what are the current merits of Interbase vs Firebird apart from cost

John Bird

From: Steve Peacocke 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:32 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List 
Subject: Re: [DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro

Thanks to all. This might be one of those "slap the forehead" times but the errors I get whenever I try to connect to Firebird 2.5 I had been putting down to the Pro restrictions but it may be that I have incorrectly set up FireBird.

Time to check things again tonight.

Steve

On Monday, 16 January 2012, Colin Johnsun <colin.adug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On 16 January 2012 12:22, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net> wrote:
>> Unfortunately this has been hobbled for the Pro version and you are forced
>> to upgrade to get that. This has left the Pro version unabled to be used by
>> Pro's. A real downgrade in functionality.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
> Whoops! My bad! I didn't check to see which edition of Delphi that belonged to.
>
> Have you tried using the IB components that come with DXE2 Pro
> (TIBDatabase, TIBTransaction, TIBQuery, etc). I just tried hooking it
> up to a FB 2.5 database using the default settings and it seems to
> work. This doesn't constitute as extensive testing so I don't know if
> there are any gotchas down the track.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin
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