Firebird 2.0 officially launched
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S Douglas wrote:
It would lead me to believe that the Windows version isn’t as highly optimized as the *NIX version.
I do my web development on Windows, including using the Windows version of MySQL. But my stress testing has really only been the web server because that's the production environment. That being said, this is something I haven't looked into, but it does sound like an interesting idea to research.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I do my web development on Windows
Out of curiosity, why not move to one environment? Why do the dev work on windows and test / production on *Nix?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Firebird 1.5 had some quirks when used with .NET and never got to the performance I expected. However, the ability to do an xcopy install for desktop apps and it's relatively small size impressed me greatly. For desktop apps it's so much better than SQL Express. (I just downloaded a freebie from Microsoft. It uses SQL Express which a) made the download even huger than it should have been, b) makes it a complete resource hog and c) it's still really slow [I started the program and created a new database. It took over 2 minutes to create it. After exiting, the SQL process was still using 256MB of memory for several minutes until I killed the process.]) I'm definitely going to give Firebird 2.0 a spin. (For desktop .NET apps, VistaDB totally rocks--but I might use Firebird for a C++ app.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I also use Firebird without problems and using with IBExpert is just as easy as using MS Sql Query Analyzer. And the fact that is freeware and the forums are really alive makes me to vote on Firebird :).
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Thank you kindly! I haven't looked at FB in quite a while and to find both a new version and one tailored for .NET in one pass is an early Christmas present. Adding to the kit.
-Bri "The most deadly words for an engineer. 'I have an idea.'"
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I do my web development on Windows
Out of curiosity, why not move to one environment? Why do the dev work on windows and test / production on *Nix?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
S Douglas wrote:
Out of curiosity, why not move to one environment?
The main reason is HomeSite, even being old, is still one of the best damn HTML editors this planet has seen IMO. It's Windows only, so it's just what I've gotten used to over the years.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]