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Interbase was a proper client server db. If you wanted embedded you needed Paradox. Ah, I have many happy memories of pulling all nighters repairing corrupted P

• barrkel 7y ago
  No, you can (dynamically) link Interbase into your app, so the server runs in-process. You can also do it with Firebird: https://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/html/ufb-cs-embedded.html https://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/html/ufb-cs-embedded.h...
  • weavie 7y ago
    Was it always that way? My memory is failing me.. I'd hate to think those nights in the 90's were completely wasted!
    • nottorp 7y ago
      I vaguely remember that Interbase was a proper client/server thing at first. I'm pretty sure we were using Paradox databases with all their quirks in 1998-2000, including support people fixing broken db files for customers.
• kstrauser 7y ago
  Heh, good memories of hitting ^Z in the Interbase command line client app to suspend it, and it pausing the entire server until the client was unpaused or killed. I'm not even sure how that could possibly happen (unless there was some blocking heartbeat thing), but it was 100% reproducible.