Category: Tools & Products releases

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The application is a Windows client/server application based on the following platform:

• Borland Delphi 7 – compiled Win32 executable
• Developer Express VCL Libraries – user interface controls
• Reportbuilder – Delphi native report engine with end-user report designer
• Firebird – Open source client/server database engine

We have C# and MSSQL Server skills, have several MSDN subscriptions, but we deliberately chose to develop the product in Delphi….why?

• Internet Deployment – We have an 8MB download – including a client/server database – impossible with .NET, and a 100+MB download is too much – way too much.

• User experience – A Win32 application written in Delphi is FAR more responsive than a .NET application.

• Speed of development – We have C# experience and Delphi experience, and while it is true we’ve more Delphi experience than C#, the consensus here is it’s still quite a lot quicker to get a Delphi application out of the door than one created in Visual Studio.
  

As .NET matures, we’ll be keeping an eye on things and future versions of the software could have a .NET client – we’ll have to wait and see. As we add things like Internet services, we’ll have this in mind as we make our technology choices; but for now, we’re sticking with Win32 and Delphi.

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http://www.upscene.com/news/20060522.htm

Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase ( 4.x – 7.x )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.0 )
– MS SQL Server/MSDE ( v6.5, 7, 2000, 2005, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
– MySQL 4, 4.1, 5.0
– Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g )
– NexusDB ( 2.05 )

If you experience any problems with this new version, don’t
hestitate and either go to the website and send a support email
or email directly to support@upscene.com

New/improved
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– NexusDB 2 support
– Microsoft SQL 2005 support
– MySQL 5 support
– Two-way Visual Query Builder
– Increased Oracle support
– New SQL Insight
– Create INSERT script from ODBC datasource
– TIFF support in BLOB Editor

Enhancements and bugfixes related to Import/Export, DataPump,
Code Editors, SQL Insight, NexusDB module performance and much
more.

Thank you for your support,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench – the database developer tool for professionals
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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The engine will be a console-mode application written in C++ using IBPP.
Administration frontend will be either wxWidgets or PHP. I haven’t decided upon
that yet, as I plan to keep entire configuration in database tables, so even
multiple frontends could be built.

The engine will be completely open sourced. I still haven’t decided on the
license, but it will be either GPL or Expat. I need to measure the possible
problems GPL might pose for myself if many people are to contribute to it.

The reason I’m writing this here is to see whether there is an interest to
develop this under the umbrella of FlameRobin project or should I roll separate
project for this. As most of you guys and now very familiar with IBPP, I suppose
there might be some contributions coming.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome… [ED:on firebird-general or firebird-devel]

—
Milan Babuskov

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