Re: Which database?

From: Bjørge Sæther (bjorge_at_hahaha_itte.no)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:48:50 +0100

"B.r.K.o.N.j.A." <thebrkonja@inet.hr> skrev i melding
news:bnlg0m$53t$1@sunce.iskon.hr...
> That's true, but the performance is poor and databases are grossly
> oversized..:( What about IB?
>
> Brle
>
> "Jeremy Collins" <jd.collins@ntlworld-not.com> wrote in message
> news:B1rnb.2711$sP5.23130@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net...
> > B.r.K.o.N.j.A. wrote:
> > > Which database engines you use for your delphi aplications which are
> used by
> > > 5-20 users? I was thinking along the lines of mysql and was pretty
fine
> with
> > > it, but now I see that it's not so widespread choice...can you give me
> some
> > > pros/cons for your choice? Can it work fine on win 98 machines (They
> show up
> > > more often than not, though the majority works under XP but still...)
> >
> > For 5-20 users I'd go for MS Access these days, via ADO. The ADO
> > libraries and Jet Engine are already installed on a lot of machines,
> > and they're quite easy to redistribute.

Jet is a local db engine, right ?
This means reliability will be substantially poorer than with a db server.
No matter what. I just wouldn't run a multiuser local db on a desktop
machine. 

-- 
Regards,
Bjørge Sæther
bjorge@haha_itte.no
-------------------------------------
I'll not spend any money on American Software products
until armed forces are out of Iraq.

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