Data Base Back End

xProgrammer · Post by **xProgrammer** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:11 pm

Hi all

I have my application running happily on a Linux NFS network. Across my VPN (ADSL 512K/512K links) performance is, not surprisingly, inadequate. To fix that I probably need to move to a client-server data base back end. I was thinking of using mySQL. I don't need ISAM type access as I am happy to write SQL queries. Is there an xHarbour (Linux) library for mySQL?

Thanks
Doug
(xProgrammer)

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:22 am

Doug,

Harbour provides a contributions folder (its not included in our Harbour setup) where there is a hbmysql folder with full source code for MySQL management.

xProgrammer · Post by **xProgrammer** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:01 pm

Thanks Antonio

I was a little apprehensive in that it seems to have been developed on OS/2 and it wasn't clear if anyone was using it for productive use on Linux.

I did buy an xHarbour enterprise license so can get SQLRDD although version on their site downloads as an rpm - not what's required for a Ubuntu install.

Both may in effect be overkill. If I am going SQL I am happy to write SQL queries and not use ISAM code translated to SQL - which would probably largely defeat the purpose of changing data base back ends.

I was hoping someone out there has practical experience in using mySQL or Postgre SQL from xHarbour on Linux platform.

Thanks
Doug
(xProgrammer)