TurboDB - good replacement for Paradox DB ?

jp

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Sep 9, 2002, 7:49:18 AM9/9/02

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Hi,

I'm looking around to find a replacement for a Paradox database that I can
distribute easily to our users around the world. Must support unicode, be
reliable and work with Delphi 5.

Can anyone tell me if TurboDB is the way to go - or are there alternatives.

thanks in advance,

jp

Rick Carter

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Sep 9, 2002, 10:01:23 AM9/9/02

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Oh, there are lots of alternatives -- see the list of BDE
Alternatives at http://www.kylecordes.com/

I was interested to hear about TurboDB, until I read about how
it requires converting the tables into a proprietary format, that
can't be read outside TurboDB. If I were to consider something
like that, I'd probably first look at dbISAM, which has been
around for a while, and has a very loyal customer base.

But I have no personal experience using either.

Rick Carter
Rick....@cincww.rcc.org
Chair, Paradox/Delphi SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group

ADS

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Sep 9, 2002, 12:03:03 PM9/9/02

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Try DBIsam,

Armindo

bcb

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Sep 9, 2002, 1:02:59 PM9/9/02

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Hello,

There is also EasyTable www.aidaim.com

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Sean Winstead [TurboPower]

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Sep 9, 2002, 1:49:22 PM9/9/02

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>I'm looking around to find a replacement for a Paradox database that I can
>distribute easily to our users around the world. Must support unicode, be
>reliable and work with Delphi 5.

TurboPower's FlashFiler is a BDE replacement that meets your criteria.
More information is available at
http://www.turbopower.com/products/flashfiler

Sean Winstead
TurboPower Software

Tim Sullivan

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Sep 9, 2002, 4:14:54 PM9/9/02

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> I'm looking around to find a replacement for a Paradox database that I can
> distribute easily to our users around the world. Must support unicode, be
> reliable and work with Delphi 5.

For free, the Advantage Database system is a pretty good deal. It's fast,
has amazingly complete SQL support, has field-level constraints and
referential integrity, and more.

As far as unicode, as long as your fields are twice as long as required by
non-unicode, it should work, but you'll want to test it. :-)

Deployment is pretty easy, you just add a couple of DLLs to the same folder
as your EXE.

http://www.advantagedatabase.com

--
Tim Sullivan
Unlimited Intelligence Limited
http://www.uil.net

Eivind Bakkestuen

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Sep 9, 2002, 6:00:48 PM9/9/02

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I would like to recommend TurboPower's FlashFiler product, which I've used
for several years. Please have a look at the link below for updated info;
the kylecordes link given in a previous message contain very old info
(mainly for the previous version).

http://www.turbopower.com/products/flashfiler/

--

Eivind

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Brian Malooley

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Sep 10, 2002, 2:26:48 PM9/10/02

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There are a ton of alternatives DB replacements in the market. I've used a
couple of them and have found Advantage Database Server (ADS) to be the most
stable of them all. I have clients that have just a couple of tables to 50
tables. Which range from 1MB to over 100MB. ADS does a very good job of
managing them. Plus you can go from a local use with no C/S to a C/S program
with just one setting change. Take a look at ADS and see what you think. Its
free for the dataset and the local mode.

http://www.advantagedatabase.com

Good luck................Brian

damian marquez

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Sep 10, 2002, 6:42:14 PM9/10/02

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"jp" <jpfran...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Don't know about TurboDB but DBIsam is for me the way to go, you cannot go
wrong with it.