Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?

1999-09-27 Thread David Warnock
native service under nt. We have the resources to do the port > ourselves (I will probably end up doing the work myself), but I was > wondering if there was already an effort underway to develop something like > this. -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?

1999-09-27 Thread David Warnock
he size/complexity of many > Unix kernels. > > This is not going to be easy to do. CygWin works because it is > emulating the Unix things we need on NT. To do a native port, you would > have to translate all our unix service calls to NT-style library calls. Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-25 Thread David Warnock
Stephen, Interesting that you are converting from Interbase. We have now reached the point where we only use 2 commercial pieces of software. Interbase and Visual SlickEdit. I would like to drop Interbase but currently we ship quite a few single user systems running on Win 9x. We have very good

[GENERAL] Interbase replacement

1999-12-22 Thread David Warnock
Hi, We use Postgresql, but we also use Interbase. However, at present there is a question mark over the future of Interbase (the top people have all resigned and we do not yet know what inprise will do with the product, there are rumours it will be dropped). Many users of Interbase are currently

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE AS

2000-01-24 Thread David Warnock
Chai, Just miss out the order by, it has no meaning in a table definition. ie Create table blah2 as select pin from tbs_billing_record where date(start_time) between '01-JAN-2000' and '23-JAN-2000'; Dave