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Thank you Tim! |
Sun, Oct 29 2006 6:36 PM | Permanent Link |
"Adam H." | Hi Tim,
Just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for DBISam. I know I've been working with it for a number of years now, but days like today, where I'm sitting back, developing an application using DBISam, I stop and ponder on how simple and enjoyable DBISam has made my working life - and it puts a little smile on my face. I try not to take things for granted in life - so I try to reflect on what I have from time to time. And (in my work life , DBISam rates high up there! (The boys and girls on the DBISam newsgroup rate high too. Always good for help, a chat, or a bit of humor If it wasn't for DBISam, I'd hate to think what I might be working with now... (mssql crosses my mind... cold shiver <brrrrrrr>) Cheers Adam. |
Sun, Oct 29 2006 9:00 PM | Permanent Link |
"Johnnie Norsworthy" | Here here! I agree completely. I love DBISAM and recommend it to everyone.
The word I use most is RELIABILITY. I will upgrade to ElevateDB as soon as it (and my money) is available. I am considering the purchase of an alternate single-file database though for writing small applications where it would be nice to have my own single file document format or a little configuration and information file included with my app. If there was a lightweight single file database (without SQL or other perks) by Elevate it would have already been purchased. -Johnnie |
Tue, Oct 31 2006 7:16 AM | Permanent Link |
adam | Johnnie,
If you write in Delphi have you considered using the ClientDataset? Use its "save to file" option & bingo, you have a simple file that can be accessed as a dataset. I use it pretty often when I need basic & simple local data saving capability in addition to DBISAM. Adam |
Tue, Oct 31 2006 8:45 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Adam,
<< Just wanted to say THANK YOU so much for DBISam. I know I've been working with it for a number of years now, but days like today, where I'm sitting back, developing an application using DBISam, I stop and ponder on how simple and enjoyable DBISam has made my working life - and it puts a little smile on my face. >> You're quite welcome, and thanks for the kind words. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Tue, Oct 31 2006 4:46 PM | Permanent Link |
"Adam H." | "Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in message news:5A2FE399-D3B0-4EAD-AFAD-4270AFCFCA91@news.elevatesoft.com... > You're quite welcome, and thanks for the kind words. No worries Tim. My plan is to top up my account with kind words while things are going right, so I can withdrawl some when EDB is released and I have some bugs, but still be in the black. Cheers Adam. |
Wed, Nov 1 2006 1:50 PM | Permanent Link |
For applications where the user thinks they are working with a "document",
but I have chosen to implement it using a database, I hide this fact from the user by storing my database as a backup file using the inbuilt backup and restore facilities of DBISAM. My user opens my software, then chooses to open a "document" file. Behind the scenes I then restore this file into a series of tables in a temporary directory on disk, or to memory tables. The user then edits his "document" and when finished he saves it again. Behind the scenes I back it up to the disk file and delete the temporary files. --Bill Sparrow-- | |
Wed, Nov 1 2006 3:18 PM | Permanent Link |
"Johnnie Norsworthy" | "Bill Sparrow" <bsparrow@cix.co.uk> wrote in message
news:memo.20061101184622.2596D@bsparrow.uwclub.net... > For applications where the user thinks they are working with a "document", > but I have chosen to implement it using a database, I hide this fact from > the user by storing my database as a backup file using the inbuilt backup > and restore facilities of DBISAM. > > My user opens my software, then chooses to open a "document" file. Behind > the scenes I then restore this file into a series of tables in a temporary > directory on disk, or to memory tables. The user then edits his > "document" and when finished he saves it again. Behind the scenes I back > it up to the disk file and delete the temporary files. I did the same type of thing in one application. I mean *exactly* the same thing. -Johnnie |
Thu, Nov 2 2006 10:09 AM | Permanent Link |
Sean McCall | Bill,
Did the same thing too.. but I used an ascii text export & import because of security issues on the user's server. I think this is a great model for some applications & its why I have been asking for several years to have multiple in-memory databases. If you could have separate in-memory databases it is easy to make an app where a user could work on 2 or more database documents at the same time. Sean bsparrow@cix.co.uk (Bill Sparrow) wrote: > For applications where the user thinks they are working with a "document", > but I have chosen to implement it using a database, I hide this fact from > the user by storing my database as a backup file using the inbuilt backup > and restore facilities of DBISAM. > > My user opens my software, then chooses to open a "document" file. Behind > the scenes I then restore this file into a series of tables in a temporary > directory on disk, or to memory tables. The user then edits his > "document" and when finished he saves it again. Behind the scenes I back > it up to the disk file and delete the temporary files. > > --Bill Sparrow-- > |
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