On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 19:41 -0500, Paul Tiseo wrote: > Okay. You "win". Everyone should be using Firebird. Nevermind what I said.
Its not a competition and when it comes to learning, everyone is a winner. :) For the record I am not anti-PostgreSQL and most always will recommend it along with Firebird. Anyone who has spoken to be about database, would have herd me mention PostgreSQL. Which I have done even in the #firebird irc channel on freenode. In fact the only negative I see regarding PostgreSQL is in its backup/restore offerings/features or lack there of. Which if you sum it all up, one negative is really not that bad. Now a bit of background. Years ago I owned a Mobile electronic store, which ran on proprietary software using at first a Paradox and then later on FoxPro database (might be reversed been +10yrs). We did daily backups of our database. However one December due in part to database corruption and inability to restore from a backup. We lost an entire month of sales, after the fact. Which for most business would be a big deal, but for one like ours was even bigger. We pre-sold stuff that would end up under the tree and installed after the holidays. Installation, wiring kits, etc were all pre-sold, but not everything did the customer take home, wrap, put below tree, etc. It was a huge nightmare for a non-technical business owner! I was not in IT, I was into car stereos, alarms, etc :) Thankfully I kept a paper copy of every invoice. I had to sit and re-enter a months worth of sales. But that was no where near as bad as it would have been had we lost the data entirely. Therefore from that point on, the #1 thing I look for in a database is its backup and restore features/offerings. I care about my data and never want to be in that situation ever again. More so considering these days I rarely keep paper copies of anything, surely not invoices I generate from custom software with data stored in a database. Combine my past experience on data loss, with being able to learn about InterBase/Firebird and start developing databases entirely on my own. My entire business these days centers around databases. I have built my business on Firebird, and its been rock solid since day one. Even when I did nasty stuff like copying a live db on a Windows machine and tossing it on a Linux one. Though I would not dare to do such again :) > PS: I was reminded of this xkcd panel <http://xkcd.com/386/>. Funny, but its not about right or wrong, its about learning. I am more than happy to let people go about anything inaccurate. Way to many people doing things wrong to go around correcting everyone, much less doing it online ;) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
