Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished
Date: 2007-08-28 11:32:57
Message-ID: 46D407E9.2040005@postgresql.org
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Harald Armin Massa wrote:
>
> ....the SQL Server 2005 Express download provides software that
>
> is suitable for application embedding or lightweight application
> development.
>
>
> I never developed more then some queries on SQL Server Express or its
> different names.
>
> But I had to work with some applications which used the various
> incarnations of SQL Server Express. And EVERYTIME it was a additionally
> installed application on the system. The only "embedding" that I could
> recognise was the Installer being triggered from the applications
> installer.
>
> MY idea of an embedded database would be "I link <something> with my
> software, so that there is only ONE application".
>
> Is my understaning of "embedded" wrong or oldschool?

SQL CE != SQL Express

SQL CE is the embedded database, SQL Express is a limited version of SQL
Server.

Regards, Dave

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