>> And you do? > > I don't think you have to be insulting if you want to disagree, or you > have anything positive to add. Why do you think people are starting > to not ask their important questions on this list? Its a bad trend.
Is it a better trend to not understand a product or technology and yet claim that it is inadequate? You didn't ask a question. You made a proclmation. You stated that Filemaker can't do something that has been a prominent part of their advertised feature set for several years. > Many people have been trying to move away from FileMaker Pro to MySQL > because of these issues and multi-threaded issues. A decent database > should handle these things without the programmer having to re-invent > with his/her own schemes. Various hand-crafted MySQL record locking schemes are discussed in most MySQL books. >> If you want to build a custom record locking >> solution for web transactions, you can do it and you will face the same >> issues in any system. It only takes a very simple calculation in edit >> privileges to accomplish. > > Would you like to be more specific and helpful? What version of > FileMaker Pro are you referring to? Record-level create, edit, browse, and delete features were introduced with Filemaker 5.5. I believe that was in 2001. These features are controlled by a calculation; and that calculation can be pretty much anything you want. > I'm not using the latest version. > FileMaker Pro needs to convince me with some major web improvements > that it is worth the price to upgrade. So far I'm unconvinced. > If you have experience with version 7 I'd be interested in hearing > about it. Filemaker 7 is an approximately equivalent technical change to the switch from MacOS 9 to OS X. This a massive technology change, and even people who participated in the beta program have concluded that will probably take a year before anybody fully understands all the power we've been given. I'm pretty good with Filemaker, and I participate in several of the Filemaker forums, and even the most highly skilled people are saying holy ****, what have we got here! High performance multithreaded server. 8TB max file size. 2GB max content in a single text field of a single record. BLOB support. ODBC/JDBC SQL add/drop/create etc support. Multiple tables per file - max 1 million, as a matter of fact. Industrial strength security. Robust instant web publishing. Much improved relational model including multiple field pairs and different types of join operators: equal, not equal, GT, LT, etc. $150 updgrade from any previous version. Data/interface separation if you want to build that way. It is still a product clearly in the FileMaker line and of course some people will find things they don't like and will still elect to use other products. But it's a whole new ball game, and I don't think anybody really understands the implications yet. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution