On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Codebue Fabio - P-Soft <<a href="mailto:f.codebue@p-soft.biz">f.codebue@p-soft.biz</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Take a look to a new Firebird 2.1 next month and probably you will change<br>
your idea about it...<br>
UDF: FreeAdHocUDF, a lot of internal SQL function...<br>
and if you wanna a good book <a href="http://www.ibphoenix.com" target="_blank">www.ibphoenix.com</a> Helen Borrie book... a MUST!<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Will 2.1 have a true auto increment attribute? A boolean field perhaps? Those are the only things that I miss when using FB. I am aware that all of these issues can be resolved by using generators/triggers and a validating domain. That is what I like about MySQL, MSSQL and others that are missing from FB.<br>
<br>Do not misunderstand though. I've used FB for 8+ years with great success in embedded, small and large transactional systems without flaw. Never had a corrupt DB. AFAIK, never had a corrupt backup. Most of the time, I deploy FB on Linux servers and backup using gbak.<br>
<br>Tom<br></div></div>