A transaction with snapshot isolation in InterBase shows the state of the database precisely as it was at the instant the transaction began.

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

On February 8 of 2006, Borland announced the intention to sell their line of development tool products, including InterBase, Delphi, JBuilder, and other tools.

In many respects, InterBase is quite conventional ; it is a SQL-92-compliant relational database and supports standard interfaces such as JDBC, ODBC, and ADO. NET.

Plans to spin off the InterBase division as a separate company were abandoned after Borland and the people who were to run the new company could not agree on terms for the separation.

Borland stopped open source releases of InterBase and has developed and sold new versions at a fast pace.

When the people who were to run the new company and Borland could not agree on the terms of the separation, InterBase remained a Borland product, and the source code for InterBase version 6 was released under a variant of the Mozilla Public License in mid-2000.

With the InterBase division at Borland under new management, the company released a proprietary version of InterBase version 6 and then 6. 5.

InterBase 6. 0 was made available as an open source product in July 2000.

In early 2000, Borland announced that InterBase would be released under open source, and began negotiations to spin off a separate company to manage the product.

* InterBase product page

In September 1991 Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, bringing the dBase and InterBase databases to the house, in an all stock transaction.

InterBase is a relational database management system ( RDBMS ) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies.

InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture.

InterBase runs on the Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris operating systems.

However, certain technical features distinguish InterBase from other products.

A full InterBase 2009 server installation requires around 40 MB on disk.

A minimum InterBase client install requires about 400 KB of disk space.

InterBase offers the option to run as an embedded database or regular server.

InterBase servers typically do not require full-time database administrators.

In InterBase, readers do not block writers.

InterBase was the second commercial database to use this technique ; the first was DEC's Rdb / ELN.

InterBase also uses its multi-generational architecture to implement rollbacks.

With their encouragement he formed Groton Database Systems ( named after the town, Groton, Massachusetts, where they were located ) on Labor Day 1984 and started work on what would eventually be released as InterBase.

The company was soon in trouble, and Borland purchased Ashton-Tate in 1991, acquiring InterBase as part of the deal.

A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

Dictionaries, as we have seen, still cite this government, along with the Articles of Confederation of 1781, as an example of a confederacy.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Swift, in the Dublin edition of A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction, indicated his feelings by including Molesworth, along with Toland, Tindal, and Collins, in the group of those who, like Burnet, are engaged in attacking all Convocations of the clergy.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

A horse needed twenty pounds of food a day but the infantryman got along with two pounds.

along the Danube and among the Carpathians, in alliance with the Emperor Joseph's armies ; ;

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.