On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
leledumbo wrote:
Indeed! More people should be introduced [and educated] to the much better
open source database servers out there, like Firebird and
PostgreSQL.
Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB
The OP's backend was half constructed.
There was also a requirement to interface to PLCs etc. (using, I'm told, the
nodave library), the specific problem he'd got was MySQL access which-
according to him at least- is not well-supported by Delphi. In that context I
risked mentioning Lazarus, but I think that trying to tell him to simply use
a different database would have been counterproductive since (a) he could
then choose one that suited his version/variant of Delphi and (b) it was in a
private conferencing topic dedicated to Delphi, not to Life After Delphi.
So while I use Lazarus, PostgreSQL and (tentatively) FireBird, there are
limits to how aggressively I'm prepared to push the combination. Particularly
when the other party is more experienced than I am and has been known to wear
a journalist's hat.
People using MySQL should have their developers license revoked :)
MySQL is not even worthy of the name database.
Michael.
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