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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-34D573.09582408102008@news.motzarella.org> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.databases
References	<ZMCdnRMHZrJ273HVnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@novis.pt>
Date	2011-04-27 15:22 +0000
Organization	TDS.net

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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:
> > 
> > >Kees wrote:
> > .... snip 
> > >Do a search "java ado", there are ways. Most commercial products have a
> > >trial, so all you need to invest is some time.
> > 
> > All commercial products I've found are using ADO under dot net.
> > Initially I've ruled dot net out, but maybe it's a possibility. 
> > 
> > > Maybe it's time to migrate your database to a more 
> > > modern/maintained one.
> >
> > Unfortunatly I can't change the database. It is used by a big DBASE
> > program (ugh...) running in a DOS window under Windows.
> > 
> 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.

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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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