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Look to the skies for your next lifestyle choice
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I'm a pilot. Skywriting's cool. I could vote no other way.
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From my position, flat out on the beach, it has a chance. If I'm awake.
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Those firebird people really have to start getting their product some more recognition, it blows MySQL out of the water and has no goofy licensing problems either.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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I agree John. I've just started to peel the onion on this one and I'm amazed at what it offers. Probably what many consider a drawback though, is it's plain C programmatic client interface, although there is a .Net data provider that I haven't looked at yet.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
Remember that in Texas, Gun Control is hitting what you aim at. [Richard Stringer]
Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]
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The .net provider works great.
I've been trying out a number of different DBMS with their .net drivers and the good think is that the .net driver is ultra standard with all of them, in fact I've made a database access layer for my business objects and Oracle was the only goofy one of the bunch and even that one was pretty easy due to the heavily standardized ado.net driver implementations.
I've run a number of tests now and Firebird seems *very* good.
I just got the Firebird book and holy cow is it huge, well worth it if your going with Firebird for anything.
I thought the whole shemozzle was re-written in c++ once it was ported from interbase for version 1.5?
I don't use the direct interfaces on any database products though so it's not my area of expertise, but from a .net provider standpoint it's pretty damn cool.
I expect HUGE things for it in future, they just need to get the word out. There's really nothing that compares.
I normally avoid free / open source software in commercial projects, but we just couldn't find any alternative that matched with such a light footprint so I'm breaking my own rule in this case.
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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Does it do clustering for load balancing?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Nope, not as far as I can tell, however it does allow breaking a database out over multiple disks so it offers load balancing at the disk end and it has "shadowing" built in for automatic failover etc.
There's a nice quick fact sheet here:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/guide/FBFactsheet.html[^]
"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."
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Noone's working on a CListCtrl? (see additional answer for Q3)
Regards
Thomas
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What licensing problems? MySQL is free. :P Right - I know... How would anyone in business dare to use free software? Heh.
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I forgot to add it I use those all the time in my applications.
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