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Thread CREATE DATABASE
Wed, May 9 2007 7:45 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Is there a chance that the engine could be given database methods, and the database be given table methods?

I know all you'd do is internally create a query and assign the necessary bits to it but I for one would find it a lot easier than having to assign Configuration as the database to a query and then run a select statement rather than do something like engine.DatabaseExists(dbname) or engine.CreateDatabase(dbname,dbpath)

Roy Lambert
Wed, May 9 2007 5:41 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Roy,

<< Is there a chance that the engine could be given database methods, and
the database be given table methods? >>

No.  It was a nightmare with DBISAM in terms of support and documentation,
and I have no intention of reliving it for EDB.  It also completely screws
up the ability to make timely modifications to the SQL syntax.  Due to all
of the methods, properties, etc. in DBISAM 4, it took almost 4 months to do
the documentation.  EDB required a fraction of that time to do the same for
the SQL manual.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Thu, May 10 2007 4:56 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Tim


Ah well, in that case I'll just keep on suffering noisily Smiley

Roy Lambert
Thu, May 10 2007 6:24 AMPermanent Link

"Jose Eduardo Helminsky"
Roy

My suggestion is inherit TEBxxx components and you can create how many
methods you want. It is safe and I have been using this with DBISAM and it
works very well. In this way you can change the behavior of something
without changing the core DBISAM engine.

Eduardo

Thu, May 10 2007 6:36 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Jose


I'll probably end up writing a few utility functions (I already have for DBISAM) but I thought it would be nice if they were in the core product, but it seems as though Tim has some good reasons for keeping them out.

Roy Lambert
Thu, May 10 2007 10:12 AMPermanent Link

"Jose Eduardo Helminsky"
Roy

I understand your point but like you said Tim need to walk in standards and
I agree with it.

Eduardo

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