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HI all, It is with some faint hope that common sense from Embarcadero will override some of the petty thinking that has allowed the divorce of IB and FB to continue so long. Surely by now they can see the advantages that MySQL AB have gained from a dual licencing business model. Too many people have died waiting for families to sort out their s****. I hope this does not happen here. cheers gary At 13:42 on 20/05/2008 you wrote >To : [email protected] >CC : >From: David Brennan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content Type: text/plain >Attached: > >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. > >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 (eg if the database >is no longer in serious use which doesn't apply to Firebird). > >David. > >-----Original Message----- >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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: >unsubscribe > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: [email protected] >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: >unsubscribe > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: [email protected] >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe > Ref#: 41006
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