[REBOL] Re: DBF
From: james:mustard at: 2-Nov-2001 9:37
> MS-Access is crap :-)
Not so - for its intended purpose there is nothing as rapid that I have
found on the market and thats in 8 years of database development.
Sure its sucks in a few areas but I have yet to see a better IDE for a
database system.
Have you seen Access XP?
> There is few tools/viewers to work with .dbf, very advanced ones. .DBF
> is however supported also by Excel, and natively supported by languages
> as Delphi, VO, Clipper, FoxPro, VB (IIRC, maybe indirectly), etc.
>
VB Support for .pdf is third party only. ;-)
> However - once you want to get to shared dbase app, better forget data
> integrity and speed. You will be probably better with some free or not
> so expensive SQL solutions - mySQL (lacking transactions, and so not
> suitable for us), or PostGres SQL.
>
MySQL since version 3.23 has supported transactions if you use the InnoDB
table format. Transaction support is guarenteed from mySQL 4.0 up (still in
alpha)
Regards,
James
