The convenient database engine for a "Distributed" System

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 13 23:50:52 EDT 2005


Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> I also recommend Firebird. I like the fact that the database is in its
> own file that can be copied from one platform to another.

Although you can only do that between platforms having
the same byte order. Backing up and restoring is a more
reliable way to do cross-platform database copying.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg



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