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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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<DIV>Last year I was using D2007 and current Firebird using IBQuery and standard
datasets with no issues.</DIV>
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<DIV>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)</DIV>
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<DIV>At the risk of starting a heated discussion what are the current merits of
Interbase vs Firebird apart from cost</DIV>
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<A title=steve@peacocke.net href="mailto:steve@peacocke.net">Steve Peacocke</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 16, 2012 3:32 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] Suitable Database for XE2 Pro</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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.<BR><BR>Time
to check things again tonight.<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR>On Monday, 16 January 2012,
Colin Johnsun <<A
href="mailto:colin.adug@gmail.com">colin.adug@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>
Hi Steve,<BR>><BR>> On 16 January 2012 12:22, Steve Peacocke <<A
href="mailto:steve@peacocke.net">steve@peacocke.net</A>> wrote:<BR>>>
Unfortunately this has been hobbled for the Pro version and you are
forced<BR>>> to upgrade to get that. This has left the Pro version unabled
to be used by<BR>>> Pro's. A real downgrade in
functionality.<BR>>><BR>>> Steve<BR>>><BR>><BR>> Whoops!
My bad! I didn't check to see which edition of Delphi that belonged
to.<BR>><BR>> Have you tried using the IB components that come with DXE2
Pro<BR>> (TIBDatabase, TIBTransaction, TIBQuery, etc). I just tried hooking
it<BR>> up to a FB 2.5 database using the default settings and it seems
to<BR>> work. This doesn't constitute as extensive testing so I don't know
if<BR>> there are any gotchas down the track.<BR>><BR>> Cheers,<BR>>
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