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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">HI all, </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">It is with some faint hope that common sense from Embarcadero will override some of the petty thinking that has allowed the divorce of IB and FB to continue so long. </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">Surely by now they can see the advantages that MySQL AB have gained from a dual licencing business model. </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">Too many people have died waiting for families to sort out their s****. I hope this does not happen here. </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">cheers </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:Trebuchet MS ">gary </span></span>
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<span style=
"color:#000000 "><span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif ">A</span></span><span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#FF0000 "><b>t 13:42 on 20/05/2008 you wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To : delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>CC : </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: David Brennan, dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz</span></span>
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"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Content Type: text/plain</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Attached: </span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>On the other hand SQL Server also competes with Interbase... yet Codegear</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>haven't yet decided to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to let</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Delphi talk with it.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>New versions of Delphi should talk to everything that old versions do IMO.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>If they don't then there should be a good reason for it (eg if the database</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>is no longer in serious use which doesn't apply to Firebird).</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>David. </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>-----Original Message-----</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] On</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Behalf Of Neven MacEwan</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:53 p.m.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Subject: Re: [DUG] DBX4 drivers for firebird</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Richard</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> "I don't feel we should have to pay for this option" Why?</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>FB is an opensource database that in the most perverse manner competes </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>with IB so why should</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>codegear give a s@#$, This is always the 2 edged sword of opensource, </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>your warranty is proportional</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>to the price paid for the product, You could write you own, make it </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>opensource and solve everyones problem</span></span>
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"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Neven B.E. E&E</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Hi all,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Our company has just recently ported from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007. </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> When we try to insert a blob into a firebird table using DBX4 </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> (dbexpress) we were getting the following message "Incorrect values </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> within SQLDA structure". Their are plenty of references to this </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> problem on the internet and it turns out that DBX4 doesn't </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> support/work with firebird anymore. This problem has got the second </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> highest votes on the codegear bug/feature request page </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> (http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=41034) and comments about </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> this problem go back to 2007 and yet I still cant find any references </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> to this problem being fixed.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> I have fixed this problem by downloading a third party dbexpress </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> driver from http://www.upscene.com/ (go to downloads and down the </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> bottom there's a trial version for InterXpress for firebird, the </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> readme forgets to include the directory for the "dbxdrivers.ini" file </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> for 2007 which is C:\Documents and Settings\All </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Users.WINDOWS\Documents\RAD Studio\dbExpress).</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> The above works perfectly but I don't feel we should have to pay for </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> this option and were wondering if anyone else has found any other </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> solutions or heard any news about whether codegear are actually </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> planning on supporting this, sounds like there's a lot of people </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> screaming about this.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> I also found a free driver at </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> http://www.tbosystems.bluehosting.com.br/dbx4/indexen.php, it seems to </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> go well apart from the fact that it crashes 10-30 seconds </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> after executing all the sql statements. </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Regards</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Richard Bullin</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> B.E.(Hons) - Mechatronics</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Lowman Consulting Ltd</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Ph +64 9 535 8647</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Cell +64 21 053 6127</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> _______________________________________________</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
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