On Friday 12 March 2004 22:24, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote:

Hi,

> Two important points that we observed when comparing Firebird with the
> other databases we support (MySQL, HSQL and MS SQL Server):
>
> 1) Firebird creates a file and the user must know the path to the
> database in order to use it. We had to modify our programs to let the
> user enter the path to the database. We prefer to pass a name to the
> server and let it handle storage.

This has been addressed in FB1.5 with Aliases

Phil

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