Ivan Grozny wrote:

> thus spake val_melamed :
>
>> I generally disagree with the statement "Firebird is a client/server
>
> > database and you should work with datasets only containing records
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> > and fields that you're currently working on". I would put the
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> > *embedded* Firebird in the same class, as far as how it gets used,
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> > with Access, FoxPro, etc. desktop database engines.
>

Just to prolong the agony, I would not. Having put a million records in
an Access table and 6.5 million records in a DBase table (Delphi/BDE), I
do not the use the "desktop approach" at all, unless the spec can
guarantee that there will never be more than a hundred records in the table.

The downside of this, is that it (usually) requires more work from the
programmer.

>
> When this thread first started, it seemed to me that there was a fundamental miscommunication between the parties, which led to the initial exchange being... well, unfriendly. Val and Adam are now having a productive conversation, and I have little to add... except that I thought of an analogy that I like so well that I can't keep it to myself.
>

Yes, it is easy to get the wrong end of the stick at times with email
"conversations". There is no tone, inflexion, etc. which gives us the
contextual clues in speech.

> Again, I have no technical contribution to make, and I'm sorry for intruding. But I really liked my analogy, and I hope you did too...
>

So do I.

regards
ian