True, Midas will isolate you from things a little, but at a huge cost - and
I'm not just thalking the license fee. It's not as easy as the demos and
documentation (HA! What documentation) make out.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Databases....
> I missed the original thread for this, but using Midas assists designing
an
> application architecture offering multi DB platform support. Its still
hard
> work, but is possible without a total re write. Midas is a star in the
> Client Server development arena.
>
> Tony.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 05:19
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Databases....
>
>
> Don't expect to be able to just simply change the back end db without
major
> rework of the front end, esp when switching to a real database. I've
learnt
> the hard way that this is a big mistake.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.......
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --Donovan
> > Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au]
> > Namadgi Systems, Delphi Developer
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