I'm enjoying this thread. :-)
I'll just add that that I've been using Interbase for over half of this year
(seems like forever really) and I have mixed feelings about it.
I used to say "an SQL language stands or falls on the strength of it's
optimiser". But since Interbase's optimiser is a steaming heap of dung,
I've had to ditch that motto for now. Still this, more than anything, is
what stops Interbase playing with the big boys IMHO.
I don't like having to use IBX or IBO to get the job done - I wanted to
retain the option to switch databases, or to support others, and it pisses
me off that I've had to learn a new, weird and buggy way to do what I used
to be able to do easily, just to satisfy Interbase. But IB6 doesn't even
run with the BDE so I haven't had a lot of choice. I have a feeling that
when DBExpress (D6) comes out we'll start switching over to that (ie. new
and improved, more generic weird bugginess :-).
I do think that Interbase is the best free (or very cheap) SQL product on
the market. In some ways, it's the only real contender at all. I'm not
interested in using anything that's not SQL based, and everything else that
I investigated was fundamentally flawed, buggy as hell, or simply
incomplete. Interbase may have problems, but at least it's a real attempt
at a database and at the end of the day it'll get your job done.
My 2c. Any of you braindead M$ sycophants want to disagree? :-) :-) :-)
Cheers,
Carl
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