Lars Fosdal

You can reserve a video against embedding, so that might be a factor?

Correct me if I'm wrong - but isn't the Delphi String automatically converted to/from UTF-8 (or other native db string formats) by FireDAC / Driver?

Why convert when you can enjoy the verbosity and indentation in all its glory? https://www.rocketsoftware.com/en-us/products/cobol/visual-cobol 🙂

I use PowerShell + dbatools module to do backups and restores, as well as check for space, database schema sync, check contents of DB and run scripts, etc.

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Considering every major ERP vendor is moving to cloud, I would say that the trend is "no". However, these are typically enterprise sized ERP systems. There may be a niche for small shop owner ERPs - but there are already tons of these out there, and even some of those are cloud based. As soon as you exceed a single user, you are in database territory, and when you talk mobile apps, you definitively are in web service country. I would suggest that you really research your intended target audience to see if there is a gap where a desktop app could fill a need. I would also suggest that you narrow down and "modularize" your functionality, because the concepts of ERP systems and their near relatives are REALLY far reaching. You may suddenly find yourself in Tax, CRM, HR & Salary, document management, EDI and WMS territory.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/hash_table_breakthrough/ adds some further detail on a different paper, "Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering" which is related to the first "Tiny Pointers" paper. And these Python implementations derive from that paper: https://github.com/sternma/optopenhash

Yeah, that was my thoughts as well. Still, it is fascinating to see innovative ideas on old subjects.

And... now in the correct thread... Did you guys read the article on the undergraduate that suggested new improvements to hash tables? Article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ "Tiny Pointers" Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800

Indeed. The change to 12.3 is really complicating existing code, and although I am not against breaking changes for improving quality, it means that you can't really use 12.3 without rewriting parts of the code. Since we never did go for 12.0 ,12.1 or 12.2, I suspect our projects will stay on 11.3, since the product has entered the care and maintenance phase.

That is technically correct but simply changing from string to string[n] in a record as a workaround to the non-nullable type Generics issue, will cause these warnings.

@bravesofts Place a feature request at EMBT's JIRA. Nothing is decided on this board.

Same for me. Several record types where I had to explicitly add a string length, resulting in numerous [dcc32 Warning]: W1057 Implicit string cast from 'ShortString' to 'string'

I agree. Bold-overuse is as bad as shouting in CAPS. It doesn't improve the delivery of the messages, nor the quality of the arguments.

Leading question - so.... what would you check next, Mike?