Re: Realbasic 2008 and MS SQL

On May 10, 7:25 am, Jean-Yves <no-pub-for-jypoc...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <d3xNl.315$5F2....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Raoul Watson <Wats...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



allan.casi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am evaluating several proposals for a customized Lead Management
application. The database to be used is MS SQL. One of the
shorlisted proposals was for the client app to be in Realbasic.

We do not have hands-on experience in implementing RB so I looked
around. I found a posting in the Real Software forums which stated
that RB takes twice as long as VB6 in data retrieval drom a database
of 200,000 records! The posting was dated Dec 2006. Had this been
addressed? Had it improved in the 2008 version?

My issue here is that our projected database size in number of records
by the end of 2009 is 500,000.

Thank you.

Stay with VB... Tell your customer that if they insist on RB that they
must sign a piece of paper to not make you reponsible for the speed of
the db retrievals..

the problem with VB is that it has been abandonned by microsoft
no more support, no more updates
so you must leave VB
microsoft "recommend" to switch to C or .net ... total rewrite of the app
RB has an utility to import VB programs with few modifications...
choose as you want !

--
Jean-Yves.

Raoul & Jean-Yves,

Thank you for your inputs. There is also another shortlisted proposal
from another company which will develop the client application in
VB.NET. Personally, I was looking for other avenues other than
the .Net technology. That was why I am hesitant to recommend the
VB.NET solution.

Recommending RB with the Real SQL Server is not an option because my
client is "sold" to MS SQL for their own reasons. If i had a hand on
this, I will recommend scrapping the MS SQL for Valentina or even
MySQL.

I am utterly disappointed with what I have been reading about RB's
performance with regards database apps. I have looked at the
language, and as a former developer who delved in Xbase, I love it.
But I have to look at this from my client's perspective. With their
volume, speed of execution is the primary criterion.

Thanks again.

.

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