Disclaimer: I'm mostly a Realbasic developer with Valentina as a
single user database.
With a full programming language you have to do a lot more work
yourself, but you aren't limited by Filemakers restrictions.
Filemaker development is very fast and then - at least I did - you
run into limitations, which may be hard to overcome or not at all.
With Realbasic/Valentina I can mostly do what I want. For this reason
I do most of my work in Realbasic/Valentina and the result of this is
put into a rather simple Filemaker database. For me this is the best
of both worlds and I know I have a lot of users using Filemaker.
I've been playing around with php/mySql a bit. The documentation for
mySql is 2000 pages alone! But setting up a MAMP system and running
Mantis - a bug tracking database - was very easy.
As usual it comes down what you need/want. How are your programming
skills? But I have never heard about Advantage Database Server...
On 08.02.2007, at 16:08, John Eiseman wrote:
I'm strictly an FM-PRO amateur/hobbyist, who has been using FM for
about 10 years. A co-worker is trying to educate me regarding
Advantage Database Server, used in conjunction with Delphi and/or
SQL. I'm completely ignorant of these. Can someone please
explain, VERY briefly, the basic conceptual difference(s) between
using FM versus ADS? Most critical: is there any reason why our
company should NOT use FM Pro to manage several large databases, in
favor of ADS or some other solution? Is there any intrinsic
deficiency with FM when compared to an ADS (Delphi/SQL) solution?
Thanks !!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards
Trixi Willius
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