[V4RB] Any hope that Valentina_Client will allow us to use REAL DB API?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 8/18/03 23:35, gary hayenga at vandg at speakeasy.org wrote:

> Is there any hope that we will be able to simply use the REAL DB API to
> access databases via Valentina server?
> 
> Otherwise it seems way too much work (it's a *big* system) to switch
> from our current databases (Frontbase and Openbase) to Valentina
> server, no matter how much better it is.
> 
> I mean, just the sheer number of times I have said
> 
> 'while not dbc.eof
>   //do stuff
>    dbc.moveNext()
> wend
> 
> is in the thousands, etc.

Hi Garry,

Yes, we have such target.

But it was many times pointed that such "generalization" only look to be
simple for port. May be only for simple cases.

If you start use advanced features of one db, you become linked to it.


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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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