On 17 June 2010 09:29, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/06/2010, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> SQLite allows multiple programs to be connected to the same database >> simultaneously. The embedded version of Firebird does not. If you run > > Well, that sounds like a rather silly argument. I thought the whole > idea of "embedded databases" is to get one application to access one > database at one time - more convenience too than a flat-file or XML > file for data storage. Embedded Databases being similar to the idea of > MS-Access (*.mdb files) - a "desktop database". If you want a > multi-user concurrency system, then you upscale to a full fledged > RDBMS system, or the "big daddy" servers like Firebird, Oracle, > PostgreSQL, MS-SQL-Server etc.
Say I've got a couple of desktop programs that want to share data/settings, why on earth would I want to install a fully fledged database server? Even jet databases (mdb) support locking. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
