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Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s

From	"John B. Matthews" <john.b..matthews@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s
Message-ID	<nospam-1CEC5C.10561313102008@news.motzarella.org> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.databases
References	<icqdnTIpBPyKk27VnZ2dnUVZ8tHinZ2d@novis.pt>
Date	2011-04-27 15:22 +0000
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In article <icqdnTIpBPyKk27VnZ2dnUVZ8tHinZ2d@novis.pt>,
 Sabine Dinis Blochberger <no.spam@here.invalid> wrote:

> John B. Matthews wrote:
> 
> > In article <ZMCdnRMHZrJ273HVnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@novis.pt>,
> >  Sabine Dinis Blochberger <no.spam@here.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > Kees wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:21:32 +0100, Sabine Dinis Blochberger
> > > > <no.spam@here.invalid> 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 ;)

Ah, thank you; I had misunderstood. So many good choices, so little time.

> We chose FirebirdSQL, because back then PostgreSQL on Windows did not 
> support UTF-8, and we need/ed that.

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Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s "Sabine Dinis Blochberger" <sabine.dinis.blochberger@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:22 +0000
  Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s "John B. Matthews" <john.b..matthews@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:22 +0000
    Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s "Sabine Dinis Blochberger" <sabine.dinis.blochberger@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:22 +0000
      Re: Dbase and no 'Like' s "John B. Matthews" <john.b..matthews@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:22 +0000

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