[geeks] Desktops

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:15:49PM -0600, Dave Kimmel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Ideally the similar solution would be backend independent, but we still lack
> > a good database for single user purposes (or single user at a time), short of
> > requiring mysql or postgres be installed and administered.  Sure, the is GDB
> > and BerkeleyDB, etc, but those don't provide enough features, like querying
> > via SQL commands.
> 
> I seem to recall that InterBase used to be like that.  It'd store all its
> stuff in a single file, without a "server" (I think there was a locking
> daemon), but it was a real SQL database.  It did tables, views, stored
> procs, and probably some other stuff that I never touched.

Is not that a commercial package?

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Joshua D. Boyd

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