With any real db you are going to need to learn a lot of stuff you should'nt
have to.
My basis for choice is as follows:
1: Does everything and has dedicated manpower to fix and monitor? MSSQL or
Oracle or Sybase etc.
2: Embedded, zero (ish) maintenance, flexible? Interbase.
3: Do it yourself? BDE, MySql etc.
With #1 you are going to need about a year to understand the product. With
#2, about 3 months.
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From: Donovan J. Edye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 11:02 AM
Subject: [DUG]: Databases....
> G'Day All,
>
> I am looking for some advice. Currently we have a real time system that is
> running off Paradox as the back end. It appears however that the DBMS is
> getting close to its use by date so a "real" DBMS is being considered (Why
> now only was my question too). At present the contenders are:
>
> - MS-SQL7
> - Interbase 5.x
> - MySQL
>
> My only previous experience is with M$ so I need to broaden my perspective
> here. IB & MySQL have the benefit of having Linux cousins so they have an
> advantage there. IB also has IBX. Can someone tell me about there
> experiences with IBX?? In not using the BDE what does it use? Can IB also
be
> accessed via ADO? Is ADO the new route to go down in terms of DB access??
>
> Any pointers, suggestions, FAQs, ReadMe etc. would be greatly
> appreciated.......
>
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