Hi Chris
   I would also recommend Advantage. Add to the stuff below. 
There is an internet server available.
 It is really fast, The client server is faster than the local server, but 
the local server is still fast.
Using Delphi there are free components to give you a table component that 
you can use in 2005/6 just as you would paradox/dbf tables with TTable. 
There is an Advantage.data.Provider that will put the Advantage tables 
into the Database Explorer. 
Support in the UK is FREE!!!  either by email or over the phone to on a UK 
number from Holland. 
There are well supported newsgroups. 
It is worth while learning the SQL as the speed is very good. And it can 
save a lot of coding
And compared to other commercial Database solutions it is cheap.

We started using Advantage as we were a Clipper house and Advantage 
supported Clipper indexing. Each new version as gone in smoothly and had 
no major bugs. Set-up a newgroup account at 
"DevZone.AdvantageDatabase.com" you should get more info there

Good luck Bob Pointon

PS I have just reread this and I do not work for Advantage. :-)




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Chris,
I did a trawl to get an alternative to Access a few months and I 
selected ADVANTAGE from Extended systems.
Main Reasons:
Ease of integration with Delphi, with connection, table and query 
components.
Stable product, with local server free and client/server at a reasonable 
price if required. Simple changeover from local to client/server.
Fast and very easy maintenance.
Very good graphical management tool for the lazy creation, managing of 
the database tables etc.
Imported my tables from Access.
I have been pleased with the developments to date.

Regards

James Fergus


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> I've avoided using SQL now for many years as I really don't want to 
> spend the time to learn that stuff.  Flat files or a simple 
> master-detail are really good enough for me.
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> But... I need an alternative.  I've been using Absolute database but 
> their filtering performance is well behind the rest.  I'm thinking of 
> Access but I seem to be having trouble using indexes as I get a 
> "current provider does not support the necessary interface for Index 
> functionality" error.
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> Can anyone advise a suitable alternative?  I'm using D2005 although I 
> do have access to D2006.
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> Standard application for me is a flat file table with 500,000 records 
> around the 100Mb mark.  I need to be able to filter and run analysis 
> on the filtered table.  I use the raw filter strings as this gives me 
> the most flexibility - perhaps it's just because I'm used to it.
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