From owner-freebsd-database Sat Oct 31 10:42:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29206 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29201 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 10:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbutt@mwci.net) Received: from noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net (noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net [207.142.159.33]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA27710; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:42:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:42:12 -0600 (CST) From: James Butt X-Sender: jbutt@noc-6.dbqoffice.mwci.net To: Tom cc: Berend de Boer , "'freebsd-database@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Database for FreeBSD 2.2.X: DB2 or Interbase possible? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Solid from www.solidtech.com A version for two users will be really > > > cheap. Low maintenance. Supports online backup (mysql for example, > > > blocks all updates during a backup), and is fully relational (mysql is > > not > > > relational because it does not support transactions). The ODBC client > > for > > > Windows 95 is really nice. Mysql ODBC for Windows can be iffy. > > > > I'll take a look at it, although I doubt I will use it. Most RDBMS take > > quite some time to know them well. As I don't know this product I don't > > know which queries work, how well the optimizer is, etc. > > You'd be surprised about Solid. Very quick to get going. SQL is very > conforming. > Yes.. Solid == Good!! We are very happy with solid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive defensively Buy a tank. FreeBSD: The power to serve! www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message