Subject | Re: Firebird and the BDE/SQL Links |
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Author | Aage Johansen |
Post date | 2002-10-09T18:43:52Z |
Jeff Shoaf wrote:
<<
We currently have two IB 6.0 dialect 1 databases hosted on the same server
that we're accessing using Paradox for Windows via the BDE and SQL Links.
I'm getting ready to start a new project and I'd like to develop it using
Firebird as well as converting the two existing databases to FB. All three
would be running on the same server. We are committed to leaving the
current applications and developing the new app in Paradox - yes, for valid
reasons! The server will be running Windows 2000.
...
position, and it was discussed at length in borland.public.bde earlier this
year (July?).
You say "for valid reasons". I say that this will most probably not be a
success.
There are now much better tools for writing a database app (and I used to
love PDox and PAL!).
Regards,
Aage J.
<<
We currently have two IB 6.0 dialect 1 databases hosted on the same server
that we're accessing using Paradox for Windows via the BDE and SQL Links.
I'm getting ready to start a new project and I'd like to develop it using
Firebird as well as converting the two existing databases to FB. All three
would be running on the same server. We are committed to leaving the
current applications and developing the new app in Paradox - yes, for valid
reasons! The server will be running Windows 2000.
...
>>Jeff, the BDE is dead (at least for C/S databases). This is Borland's
position, and it was discussed at length in borland.public.bde earlier this
year (July?).
You say "for valid reasons". I say that this will most probably not be a
success.
There are now much better tools for writing a database app (and I used to
love PDox and PAL!).
Regards,
Aage J.