At 06:21 PM 14-01-02 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi all.
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>First, some unfinished business from a prior email:
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>The new CURRENT_USER... how does this differ from USER? Couldn't find detailed info in the RC2 notes (early days, I know!).

Well, I wrote the notes and I don't have any information that says its different to USER. afaik, it went in there for a little bit of SQL standards compliance.

>Second, I'm at the point where I need to settle on an IB development environment. FB for server, of course, but what about Delphi + IB components... your thoughts from experience and expectations much appreciated...
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>(2) D3-6 + IBObjects? This is my dream setup, but unfortunately $800AUD is pretty steep;

Actually, at current exchange rates it's $AUD746. At current Aus programmer rates that's about 8 hours of your time. It will save you hundreds of times those eight hours...and you might even get to collect your holiday pay and take an actual holiday...<g>

Helen
Armidale, NSW


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