On 17 June 2010 10:02, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> 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? > > Because it was designed for concurrency and multi-user support. BTW:
sqlite was designed for concurrency and still it's embedded. > The full fledged Firebird RDBMS is a whopping 12MB install - smaller > than most desktop applications. So I would hardly say it's an effort > to install - and Firebird is known for its "deploy and forget" > installation style. No need for tweaking or other setups (unlike > MS-SQL-Server, Oracle, DB2) It's not about disk space. It's about having a database server running all the time. Imagine everyone had your attitude, I'd have several useless database servers running on my computer. No thanks. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
