where could I find such edition of Oracle? I need exact this and as I saw oracle.com doesn't support it anymore.
Does your organisation have a Support Contract? If so you can probably get ahold of it from MyOracleSupport (formerly Metalink).
If you have a license but no support then call your Account Manager. They may be sympathetic, especially if they think there's future sales in prospect.
If neither case applies, then I'm not sure whether it would be ethical to help you find a copy.
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At the risk of this question being closed, I'm going to ask it anyway since I'm quite lost, and I really need to make a decision.
I'm inclined for OpenLink Virtuoso at the moment since it's open source.
However, does Virtuoso Universal Server (commercial) have more features compared to OpenLink Virtuoso (open source) or are they [very] similar? Am I missing something if I use OpenLink Virtuoso and don't upgrade to the commercial "Virtuoso Universal Server"?
I'm sorry to ask, but the web pages are not clear enough for me. I can't get any clear cut answer from the online documentation.
This is certainly not a programming question, so really not appropriate for StackOverflow. As it's about comparisons between two products from the same company, OpenLink Software (my employer), it's most appropriate for the OpenLink Community Forum.
That said, in short, yes, Virtuoso Enterprise Edition a/k/a Commercial Edition has several features that are not in Virtuoso Open Source Edition a/k/a VOS. Significant differences include Custom Inference Rules, Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), Rule-Based Access Control for RDF Named Graphs, Federation/Virtualization of external SQL and RDF data sources, Replication Cluster options, Elastic/"Shared-Nothing" Cluster options, and more. We publish a useful feature comparison matrix, comparing VOS with Enterprise Edition from v5 to v8 (current).
All that said, you can start with VOS and migrate to Enterprise Edition if and when you discover a need for the Enterprise features, just by replacing the executables; the database does not need to be rebuilt. (Reverse migration is possible but takes more work, as this direction does require a dump and reload.) Similarly, you can start with a low-scale Enterprise license, and upgrade when/if you need to support more users, use more processors, add optional features, etc. You don't pay twice, as scale-upgrade licenses are priced at the difference between the existing and the new.
More details about any of the above are best gathered through the OpenLink Community Forum or by contacting our Sales team.
We have Delphi XE2. We are looking for a database for our application. We have tried Absolute Database and it supports most of SQL commands we need. I see most of Delphi users choose Firebird but it seems to hard to work with. I am so much confused about databases and licenses. Here are my problems:
When we choose a database, let's say Absolute Database, Firebird, MySql embedded etc. and if we have for example 3.000 customers, do we still need to pay to Database developers? Or is it one time fee? I am so much confused because they say when we buy, we can use it inside our building ( http://www.componentace.com/order/licenses.php ). But when we release our software, our customers will need to use the same database of course.
Absolute DB is easy to install and supports most of SQL queries. Firebird does not support most of SQL queries. Is this correct?
When we try to use Firebird, we use FlameRobin to design database. But when we try to connect using IB components, it says "Unable to connect database".
Thank you very much...
Firebird has no licensing fees at all. However, it's smart to help maintain this great project once you rely on it. There is a lot of ways to help Firebird project:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/#consider-your-contribution
Not correct. Firebird is very powerful and supports most SQL standards plus a great SQL extensions for stored procedures and triggers
Check your database connection string. It's usually something like server_ip:full_db_path if you're connecting over a network, or just full_db_path if local. You can always use an ALIAS in place of full_db_path. Make sure you have Firebird server running or, if using embedded, if it's installed correctly. Firebird has a great and very complete documentation and one of the best support groups on open source projects.
It depends on database. Absolute Database is embedded database, everything is included in your exe. Most database engines however are standalone, so they are installed as applications. It looks like if you buy commercial Absolute Database licence, no royalties are needed: http://www.componentace.com/order/order_product.php?id=8
Firebird supports most SQL standards. According to this answer, most SQL compliant embedded database is Firebird: Which embedded database has maximum SQL compliance, and concurrency support?
You must have some configuration issues with IB components, hard to say more without more information. On the otherhand, IB components are for Interbase, so you might find something else better, like UIB.
If you'll choose Firebird, then take a look at IBExpert. This is absolutely the best administration tool available for Firebird. But not cheap. =(
You should also look at Interbase, also marketed by Embarcadero, the Delphi vendor. Interbase is not the same thing as Firebird, which is probably why the IB components you mentioned didn't work.
Yes, each customer will usually have to purchase the IB database. However, there are additional choices with Interbase, depending on how you structure your application. Check how they work and see if they can fit better with what you are trying to do.
I'm in a database class. We're learning about joins, unions, and projections.
Is there a program that would be helpful in getting practice? Like I an expression and it selects the appropriate fields in a table.
Please don't bother downloading and trying to install a server DBMS (plus one or more clients) for this simple task. If you're taking a course in being a database administrator you might want to spend hours learning these technologies (and, if you go on to work with these products seriously you will, eventually, need to master some of them), but if you just want to practice SQL queries, there are sites that let you do just this.
You can find some nice on-line exercises here: http://sqlzoo.net/.
MySql is easy to use and free so that would be my choice. The community server is the one you want to download.
http://www.mysql.com/
I would recommend getting the Workbench tool as well to make this easier to create tables and mess around with them.
Download and install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, with Management Tools. Has everything you need to get started and it's 100% free.
You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/express.aspx
Or if you are willing to part with $50, you can buy SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition (full enterprise/data center edition, just with licensing restricting only to development, testing, and demoing) to do some really cool stuff.
We use VSTS Database Edition to version control our database schemas. I like the idea of how it is supposed to work but have a big issue with the Schema Comparison feature. I like to use it for my deployments to see what has changed in the project vs a target database. Unfortunately, it shows many changes for objects that have not been changed. That happens even if I do it immidiately after re-creating a db project from the database.
The differences it finds are mostly white space. Some are caused by a different representation of the same thing, for example default constraints, "DEFAULT ((0))" vs "DEFAULT (0)". While I can go ahead and deploy the changes anyway and it does not cause any problems, it is definitely not ideal because it is hard to find actual changes when at least 50% of all objects are shown as modified. Is there any way to make this work better?
The solution to this was upgrading to the Database Edition GDR R2 release, which was suggested by Mitch Wheat in his comment. I was using the standard version that came with VS2008 before. GDR release appears to have some nice usability features and it fixed all my problems with the Schema Comparison.
General info on VSTS Database Edition GDR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd483214.aspx.
Latest version download is here.
I keep hoping VSTS Database Edition will get more reliable. In the meantime, I still trust and use redgate's SQL Compare to diff databases. You can tell it how you want it to treat white space, comments, etc. on a very granular level.
I have been using SQL Compare around 5 years and it has always been very reliable. I have automated build scripts that use the SQL Compare engine APIs to diff our production and dev database and generate change scripts automatically.
PS. I am not affiliated with redgate. I am just stating my opinion based on my experience. Also, there is nothing wrong with rooting for the little guy.
Is it possible to use e.g. SQLite with PowerBuilder? I need an embedded open source database (no additional costs).
Like Bernard said, you'll need an ODBC driver, so as long as you're willing to go third party (if I understand the SQLite situation correctly), that should be no problem.
That said, if you have PowerBuilder, you have license to distribute the single-user SQL Anywhere run time engine. If no-cost is your only criteria, and you're only connecting locally, SQL Anywhere may be an option to evaluate. Not only is it an incredibly solid database, but there's a much larger base of documentation and experience connecting PowerBuilder to SQL Anywhere, so if you run into problems, you're more likely to get some help.
Good luck.
I don't believe that PowerBuilder contains a driver for native support to SQLite. But it definitely has a driver for ODBC, so that is always an option even if it isn't the most efficient one.
I used to use SQL Anywhere, but eventually ditched it for the reasons Joe Landau gave - can't change the schema using the distributable runtime engine.
I switched to Firebird, which has an embedded version, and that seems solid. The only issue is that the ODBC driver I'm using (Gemini), which seems to be the best one available, seems to have gone out of business. (I just checked - it seems to be available on other sites.) And you have to add the following to your PBODB*.INI file:
[Firebird]
PBSyntax='Firebird_SYNTAX'
PBNoCatalog='YES'
[Firebird_SYNTAX]
CreateTable='CREATE TABLE &TableName (::ColumnElement[::ColumnElement]...)'
ColumnElement='&ColumnName &DataType'
DropTable='DROP TABLE &TableName'
GetIdentity='Select gen_id(GEN_&TableName,0) from RDB$DATABASE'
I've been very happy with it. Using it for almost 2 years, with over 1,000 users, and no problems whatsoever. You can also easily switch to the Firebird server version if some users need that.
As noted, SQL Anywhere is available and solid. But it has a disadvantage--you can't change the schema using the run time engine. This makes it hard to, say, add a column to a db that you have distributed.
++ to the comments by DC on Firebird. One of the best free databases out there. I have used it for years for a PB application I sell to Law Firms.
Although I use the server version even if the target is a single workstation. Simplifies the deployment and the issue of adding workstations later if desired.
I use the standard Firebird ODBC driver at http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=odbc
There are two good GUI front database management tools that I hve used - IBOConsole and Flamerobin.