No its not. Its free IF you have a license of Visual Studio (Enterprise, I
think), or Office 2000 Developer edition. Neither of which are cheep.
N
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Chuah
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2000 11:49
> To: Multiple recipients of list database
> Subject: RE: [DUG-DB]: What cheap databases are any good?
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>
>
> MSDA is free. Its a full SQL server engine minus the admin tools.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl Reynolds
> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2000 11:13
> > To: Multiple recipients of list database
> > Subject: [DUG-DB]: What cheap databases are any good?
> >
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm at a site where they're writing new Delphi apps against a
> > grubby old
> > Foxpro database. This is bad because the Delphi drivers for
> > Foxpro cannot
> > handle much in the way of queries and performance is abysmal.
> > Apollo was
> > investigated in an attempt to beef things up, but it suffers
> > from the same
> > problems and more. What is really needed is an upgrade to a better
> > database. Using Delphi with Foxpro seems a bit like running
> > Windows 2000
> > but insisting on sticking to your old DOS-based word
> > processing package.
> >
> > Unfortunately the big issue is price of site licenses.
> > Ideally we need
> > something free, but if not, then it has to be extremely cheap
> > (cheapskates,
> > I know). I've already used paradox and I'd rather use
> > something more robust
> > (unless it was a choice between that and Foxpro). So what
> > are my options?
> > What is there available that's inexpensive and yet still does
> > the job well?
> >
> > All comments appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
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