Hi Dorin !
Debugging of SQLServer stored procedures is possible in VS.NET (from enterpise developer version). User defined function can be created very easily on database level using T-SQL.
As regards as capability. MSDE is more similar to Firebird.
SQLServer is something different - it is not only database engine it is also great documentation, great powerfull tools (profiler, query analizer, agent, data transformation services), COM automation interface, XML interface, reporting services and ease of use all of the mentioned tools. I am not from MS marketing - SQL Server is just really good product.


>Yes. C++ and Delphi developers have native components to acces Interbase and Firebird databases. They don't need ODBC or OLE DB drivers. There are IBO, IBX, FIBPlus, DBExpres. Also a very well documented API, but samples are all in C,C++ or Delphi. Also, if one need custom UDFs, these can be written in C, C++ or Delphi and then registered into database. Also stored procedures debugging is possible, with break points, watch variables, steb by step execution (BTW, it is true that is not possible something like that in SQL Server?).
>Makes me wonder, if a small server like this has so many features, what SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 are capable of doing?
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>>Portability and small footprint of Firebird make impression on me too.
>>I think also that I did not waste my time looking at it. It was interesting expierience - I just have not enough time to master all thing I am interested in. Thanks for showing something new. I hope Firebird will fly high and will never be fired. BTW an hour ago I've talk with one of my colleagues (a Delphi developer). He uses Firebird and it works for him very good though it is in better position because as he said he can use native drivers not ODBC drivers.
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