Thanks to everyone who gave me their feedback on this.
Mike
At 12:18 PM +0200 14/4/06, Mike BR wrote:
I have been away from RB for quite a while now (3.5) although I do
have a licence for RB5.5, when I was using RB before I was a bit of
a novice so I am probably worse off now, I have a project that I
could probably use RB for and basically need some advice from RB
users that use databases.
I have not used RB for any database projects in the past but feel
this project might lend itself to saving the user inserted
information to database files rather than text files. I have been
working with PHP and MySQL the last couple of years and it never
ceases to amazed me with the versatility of these two together and
the seemingly logical storage system when using a database, which is
one of the reasons I am thinking of using database files to store
data and not text or binary files. At some time in the future I may
integrate or allow users to integrate, backup or store to an online
database, which is another reason I am thinking of saving the user
input information to database files rather than text or binary files.
So basically I am looking for advice, trying to save myself time in
discovering the best way to go here. I read that there are various
database options now with RB, I wonder which would be recommended to
be reliable and suitable of the available databases for my purposes,
allowing a user to save these as separate files rather than text
files, easy access, for the future permit easy integration with an
online MySQL database, ease of use in RB etc. I guess reliability
would probably be the most important factor for me to consider here
although cost would also need to be taken into account.
Any advice or pointers on which 'database' way to go would very
much be appreciated.
I have RB5.5 so this would be the preferred version of RB for me, or
would there be any advantages in upgrading to the current version?
Well I have had fantastic results with RB55 (and RB2006) and SQLlite
plugin Pro. I still use it in 6r2 rather than the REALSQLdatabase,
even though they are written by the same people and REALSQL probably
has more bugs fixed. SQLite is just great. I use it to store
preferences and data. It may be hard to purchase this plugin now as
REAL bought the heart and soul of the programmer and now it is a
REAL product.. Just joking Will L., I know you have a heart of
gold....
It is a single user system. I can't comment on the REAL SQLlite
server. You will need upgrade to RB2006r2 to use REALSQLlite.
The mysql plugin currently works best with mysql v4. I suspect that
there might be a beta version of a new plugin for mysql 5, but who
can say for sure on this public list.
Another good option for Multi-user is OpenBase. I haven't tried
Valentina but is seems to be well supported.
Let me know if you want more info.
--
Cheers,
Dr Gerard Hammond
Bioinformatic Analyst
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
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