David
On the other hand SQL Server also competes with Interbase... yet Codegear
haven't yet decided to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to let
Delphi talk with it.
The point here is they don't consider that they are doing so by not
supporting FB directly,
Also we are talking about the IB driver not an FB Driver, have codebase
ever shipped a
named FB Driver for DBX? or has everyone assumed henceforth FB == IB
New versions of Delphi should talk to everything that old versions do IMO.
If they don't then there should be a good reason for it
Almost an impossibility IMHO
David.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2008 12:53 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] DBX4 drivers for firebird
Richard
"I don't feel we should have to pay for this option" Why?
FB is an opensource database that in the most perverse manner competes
with IB so why should
codegear give a [EMAIL PROTECTED], This is always the 2 edged sword of opensource,
your warranty is proportional
to the price paid for the product, You could write you own, make it
opensource and solve everyones problem
Neven B.E. E&E
Hi all,
Our company has just recently ported from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007.
When we try to insert a blob into a firebird table using DBX4
(dbexpress) we were getting the following message "Incorrect values
within SQLDA structure". Their are plenty of references to this
problem on the internet and it turns out that DBX4 doesn't
support/work with firebird anymore. This problem has got the second
highest votes on the codegear bug/feature request page
(http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=41034) and comments about
this problem go back to 2007 and yet I still cant find any references
to this problem being fixed.
I have fixed this problem by downloading a third party dbexpress
driver from http://www.upscene.com/ (go to downloads and down the
bottom there's a trial version for InterXpress for firebird, the
readme forgets to include the directory for the "dbxdrivers.ini" file
for 2007 which is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users.WINDOWS\Documents\RAD Studio\dbExpress).
The above works perfectly but I don't feel we should have to pay for
this option and were wondering if anyone else has found any other
solutions or heard any news about whether codegear are actually
planning on supporting this, sounds like there's a lot of people
screaming about this.
I also found a free driver at
http://www.tbosystems.bluehosting.com.br/dbx4/indexen.php, it seems to
go well apart from the fact that it crashes 10-30 seconds
after executing all the sql statements.
Regards
Richard Bullin
B.E.(Hons) - Mechatronics
Lowman Consulting Ltd
Ph +64 9 535 8647
Cell +64 21 053 6127
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