On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Dave Crozier wrote:

> Some of you may be interested to know that the Valentina Relational Database Office server is now available completely free.

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> http://www.valentina-db.com/

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> It is ODBC compliant so you can use it with VFP.

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> Oh, and it's fast....

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> I have used it on the iPhone with Real Basic as opposed to the inbuilt SQLite.

Wow! What a blast from the past! I was an early Valentina user, back in the late 90s! It was the backend database for the first iteration of the leafe.com site. I filed more than my share of bug reports back then. I only switched to MySQL when they dropped their free version and I was too cheap to pay for it! Well, that and I wanted the fulltext search that MySQL had.

Back then Ruslan (the creator of Valentina) didn't have the means to run a mailing list, so I created and ran one for him - that was a couple of years before I started ProFox! I still maintain a mirrored archive of their current mailing list - you can search it at http://leafe.com/archives/search/valentina

-- Ed Leafe

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