Hi Dorin !
I have two questions slightly out of topis of this thread
1. I installed Firebird but I can not find Firebird ODBC driver - where I can find it ? How can create a propper connection string ?
2. What date/datetime datatypes has firebird databe. Does they allow empty dates ?



>Firebird SQL has almost all of these, and is 100% free.
>We use it, is very robust and fast. There is also a 1.4 M embedded dll with the engine, to use locally.
>Its compiled procedural language executes very fast.
>Also a lot of free and commercial tools are available.
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>I think that is superior to MySQL, regarding features.
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>>Hi Alan
>> Actually MySQL falls way short of the mark in many areas.
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>>Here's a short list of stuff missing: Triggers, Views, Cursors, Stored Procs.
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>>Here's another list: you cant do hot backups of the database. You can if you use InnoDB but their hot backup costs around 1000.00
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>>You dont have any type of analysis services (Data Warehouse stuff)
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>>You dont have an agent for scheduling jobs.
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>>And the list goes on....
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>>MySQL is far from free. Heck their minimum support package is around 1500 for e-mail support. You can buuy the sql server support page for 2000 which includes 12 phone calls.
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>>MySQL does have its place but it is not in the enterprise yet.
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>>Rodman