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Robert Canary wrote:
Re: SQL Action Failure
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Monday, March 3, 2003
Time: 9:56:55 pm
> Dosen't matter Shawn you only support two OS Windblows and Macs. ODBC
> api are ported to both. The calls are the same.
> Mac has a better ODBC than Windows, more flexible. But the api calls are
> identical, they are because it is ODBC, ODBC is for cross platform
> continuity {or someting like that}.
No, SQL is the same across platforms... the underlying ODBC APIs are
completely different (even between versions of Windows). You definitely
can't make a C++ call to an ODBC API on Windows and use that code on a Mac.
>> Would you also like me to write my own database engine so people didn't need
>> to purchase FileMaker? :)
> I don't find that funny, that was really rather irritating.
I wasn't really trying to be funny, I was just posing a question... But it
does sound funny no matter how I ask it, doesn't it?
> There are very good database engines available, more powerful and more useful
> than FileMaker. SQL, MySQl,LDAP,Berkleys NewDB,Hestoid. All of which have
> been proven and have zillions of interfaces available for the programmer
> at heart.
Agreed, and if it was done from a purely geek standpoint, it would be done
in Oracle, but then of course we would have lots of people complaining about
the cost of Oracle. Not to mention the exponentially higher cost of
supporting thousands of installations running an Oracle backend. If it was
exclusively web-based, probably would be MySQL... and would still have much
higher support costs... Like we might have to actually charge for support
(which I'm sure people would complain about).
- Shawn
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