RE: alternatives to MS SQL (Pervasive SQL)

2001-12-06 Thread Jeffry Houser

  I want to throw in here..

  My experience with PervasiveSQL is that it is a flat file system, not a 
RDBMS. Both FileMaker and Lotus Approach use the flat-file approach to DBs, 
if you want a frame of reference. It's not a relational database and I 
wouldn't recommend using it as a relational database.

  Business Visions (An accounting software) was developed on top of 
Pervasive SQL, and while we (when I say we, I mean me) are supposed to 
write some migration / transfer code to move data from a web order database 
into the internal Business Visions accounting system, I haven't actually 
done serious experimentation w/ accesing Pervasive SQL w/ ColdFusion via ODBC.

  I was very upset after being told that the client was upgrading to the 
SQL Server version of Business Visions to find out that there was no SQL 
Server version and the 'SQL' version of the product was developed in 
Pervasive SQL.


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RE: alternatives to MS SQL (Pervasive SQL)

2001-12-06 Thread Marcus

I have to use a Pervasive system every day and have a small piece of advice
for anyone that is going to attempt this...

Run Away!

Pervasive has no support for NULL states. It can't handle large SQL
statements. It is very case aware. And it's just kludgy to have around!

Marcus


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