Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Sabine Dinis Blochberger" Subject: Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.databases Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.databases In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 32 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:22:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303917774 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:22:54 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:22:54 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.databases:293 To: comp.lang.java.databases John B. Matthews wrote: > In article , > Sabine Dinis Blochberger wrote: > > > Kees wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:21:32 +0100, Sabine Dinis Blochberger > > > wrote: > > > > > > >Kees wrote: >> > Depending, the dBase program can handle different databases - we used > > dBase programs with FirebirdSQL for a while. The program ran permanently > > like a daemon/service and did have a tendency to hang itself though, so > > that was phased out aswell. > [...] > > I had a positive experience developing with Firebird 1.5 for about a > year on servers running Mac OS X 10.4, RedHat 9 and Debian 3.1. The > Jaybird driver was solid. I see Firebird 2.1 is current. > Yes, that's what we use currently. Just to clarify, dBase was phased out as a programming language, not FirebirdSQL ;) We chose FirebirdSQL, because back then PostgreSQL on Windows did not support UTF-8, and we need/ed that. --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24