Subject Re: [firebird-support] What programming languages and toolkits do you use to access Firebird?
Author Fulvio Senore
Daniel Albuschat ha scritto:
> So I am interested in:
>
> a) How many Firebird-users are developing using Qt (either C++ or Jambi)?
>
Not me.
> b) What other languages and toolkits are popular among Firebird-users?
>
>
I am using C++ with wxWidgets.

A question: if you are using QT only for threads support, why not use
the Boost implementation of threads? The resulting code should be more
portable.

It looks like you like the idea of knowing how many rows are there in
the result set of a query. This might be useful in some situation, but
it comes at a possibly high price: you always retrieve all the rows from
the server. This might increase a lot the server load.
When presenting data in a grid users usually scroll the grid only a few
time. If they start a query that returns some hundred thousands rows
they scroll a few times, then they realize that they will never find
what they are looking for and they start a more specific query that will
return only a few rows.
Always retrieving all the rows from the server looks overkill in such a
situation.

Yes I know: only dumb users work this way, but it looks like there are
many of them...

Fulvio Senore