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Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS

Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:56:52 -050
Hi friends,
Is it possible to use Firebird 2.1 with dBASE?, Has anyone tested these
together? (Firebird 2.1, dBASE PLUS & the IBPhoenix open source ODBC
driver)
Jaime Escobal
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Re: Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS
Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:38:26 -0500
In article <LBghYsFgIHA.1880@news-server>, jaime.escobal@laviga.com 
says...
> Hi friends,
> Is it possible to use Firebird 2.1 with dBASE?, Has anyone tested these
together? (Firebird 2.1, dBASE PLUS & the IBPhoenix open source ODBC
driver)
> Jaime Escobal
> 
> 

Jaime,

2.1 is still in beta. In theory it should work, but I wouldn't recommend 
making decisions based on that.

-- 
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Re: Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:57:08 -050
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS] Wrote:


> 
> Jaime,
> 
> 2.1 is still in beta. In theory it should work, but I wouldn't recommend 
> making decisions based on that.

 
Thanks Geoff , I knew that... but I was curious.... later I'll have to do some
tests....

Have a nice day
Jaime Escobal


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Re: Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS
Sun, 9 Mar 2008 01:56:52 -0500
In article <0OFBy1TgIHA.1748@news-server>, jaime.escobal@laviga.com 
says...
> Geoff Wass [dBVIPS] Wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Jaime,
> > 
> > 2.1 is still in beta. In theory it should work, but I wouldn't
recommend 
> > making decisions based on that.
> 
>  
> Thanks Geoff , I knew that... but I was curious.... later I'll have to do
some tests....
> 
> Have a nice day
> Jaime Escobal
> 
> 

Jaime,

If you do end up doing some tests, let us know how they turn out.

Enjoy your weekend!

-- 
Geoff Wass [dBVIPS]
Montréal, Québec, Canada

.|.|.|        dBASE info at http://geocities.com/geoff_wass       |.|.|.
.|.|.| ---------------------------------------------------------- |.|.|.
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Re: Firebird 2.1 & dBASE PLUS
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:22 +020
Graham Chiu schrieb:

> I'm also wondering if you have a FB 2.1 server, you can still use a 
> remote FB 1.5 client ( fbclient.dll) to create the ODBC connection if 
> dBase only plays nicely with 1.5 FB libraries.

I have been reading in the Firebird-Support lists, that you better NOT 
use 1.5 clients with 2.1 servers.

2.1 clients can access 1.5 servers easily, but not the other way round.

That _IS_ the point.
Vladimir Tsvigun, who did major part of the development of the ODBC 
driver, is not a member of the team any longer. I don't know what 
happened, maybe he finished his studies and acquired a real job... whatever.

But he was the one who made some extra changes in the ODBC driver, so it 
would still work with BDE. Problem is that BDE is using some outdated 
form of ODBC specification, which is marked "deprecated" for more than
8 
years now.
Not all new ODBC drivers are still downward compatible, and I don't know 
whether the "new" developers of the ODBC drivers did take care to 
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