[Lazarus] MS Access file - is it 'accessible' concurrently ?

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 08/09/2011 11:51, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Firebird is the easiers and smallest by FAR! At it has many more 
> feature - at least compared to MySQL. So small doesn't mean less 
> features here.
> 
> A full Firebird Server download is a mere 8-12MB download. It can
> even run on a Windows 98 system if you wanted, so resource using in
> minimal too (obviously depending on how many concurrent connections
> you handle). A client-only install is even smaller, but you can use
> the same setup files, just select "client libraries only" during the 
> install.
> 
That's cool.

> Even installing Firebird from a tar.gz file on Linux (not via a
> distro repository), it takes no more than 2 minutes to setup.

I use Windows (blush) XP 32 bit and Lazarus 0.9.28.2...
(which is an improvement since the original system is written in VC++ 6.0)

Oh well, something to think about when time comes to integrate this,
for now it's nowhere near that stage, yet.

[...] 
> We have tested our company applications on Firebird, MySql and 
> PostgreSQL. Our application behaved the same on all, though the 
> queries where quite a bit slower on PostgreSQL for some reason. So 
> maybe that 3rdParty component was rubbish. MySQL just sucks with all 
> it's limited features. MySQL is only popular because of marketing
> and hype (eg: LAMP) - not because of features and stability.
> 
Yeah, heard that too. 

and just when I thought all's jolly good, 

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: 
> But which variant of Firebird? If I recall correctly there are three,
> I was prodding at it a bit a few months ago and came to the
> conclusion that Firebird classic might be a viable alternative to
> PostgreSQL since it provided an equivalent to the listen/notify
> commands.

:)

Lukasz