On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:18:52 -0500, Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>
>Fabricio Araujo wrote:
>>
>> I'm really tired of MS SQL and FB, EXCEPT FOR THIS, it exceeds most of
>> the requisistes our customer have, if you cared to read the end of
>> message you'd read that FB really managed to basicly ban MSSQL
>> and Oracle from most of new projects on Navy.
>>
>For what (little) it's worth, cross-database queries are a subject of
>considerable interest to some developers, but right now, we've got to
>get V2 out, survive the Vulcan merge, and bring some degree of sanity to
>the handling of different character sets and collations, not necessarily
>in that order.

At least I can hope and I'm not alone at all;-) And it's becoming too
much
FB-General to stay at Fb-Support... Maybe I got some passionate about
this but is
because that project have repercussions on entire American continent
naval forces,
since our country is only one (besides USA and Canada) that have such a
system
and only one on Latin America. And the plan is, after it become full
operational,
get rid of Windows. But not without a complete replacement for that
multidb queries.

And the right order is that anyway - SMP and enhanced multithread
processing and collations because is a incessable source of