Subject | Re: [ib-support] Datatypes |
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Author | Paul Reeves |
Post date | 2002-01-24T11:54:24Z |
Gary Robson wrote:
we could tell you how Firebird will accomplish the same result.
I don't know too much about MySQL, however it appears to be a long way from
compliance with the ANSI standard (any of them) and some would argue that it
is not a relational database server. None of that is really the point - it
gets the job done for a lot of people and is often the right solution.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help migration.
Paul
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Paul Reeves
http://www.ibphoenix.com
taking InterBase further
>Possibly not. Maybe you could explain what these datatypes achieve - that way
> I have hit a problem with Firebirds datatypes, does
> Firebird have an equivalent
> of MySQLs SETs and ENUMs?
>
we could tell you how Firebird will accomplish the same result.
I don't know too much about MySQL, however it appears to be a long way from
compliance with the ANSI standard (any of them) and some would argue that it
is not a relational database server. None of that is really the point - it
gets the job done for a lot of people and is often the right solution.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help migration.
Paul
--
Paul Reeves
http://www.ibphoenix.com
taking InterBase further