Quote from richtrader:
If you are serious about writing your own app and are using C#, you need to learn SQL as well and get your hands on MS SQL Server. I couldn't do without it.
richtrader,
You are 200% right about needing database support besides a language when writing your own app.
This is what I have been doing for the last 6 years since I threw my T*n and M*k stuff in the garbage can.
I used C++, MSAccess and SQLServer. In fact M$ practically forced me into VB as the only "practical" way to deal with their db stuff. Boy oh boy! I am not going to even try to tell you about "the trouble I have seen all these years". I must quickly add that: (1) I never regret to have started my own app; (2) right now things run rather well with M$. Things like ADO now work about as they should have years earlier; (3) I gave up on the VB.Net and the C# stuff about 2 years ago as it made me vividely recall the bad years when M$ was learning how to do its tricks with the earlier gimmicks. From other ET threads I learned that other C# practicioners are telling us about a lot of nogo stuff. The problem is that you are stuck deep in the muck already before you get wise enough. I will never get caught a second time!
richtrader, if you start now, lucky man! Go to linux! Database? Go either MySQL or Postgresql. What has been said about MySQL on this thread is roughly exact. But do you need all this other stuff if you want to make money by trading? I did replace SQLServer by superior Postgresql but I keep looking back at simpler MySQL - many people use it though.
You read perhaps about my earlier post about Kylix. For more than a year I used this as a cross-development platform to bring my trading app to a safer more stable linux platform. As of late Borland seems to go slow with Kylix. I can't take any risk here.
Am I glad I looked a bit further. I knew about Python but had never taken this really for serious. Now I know: GO PYTHON. (
www.python.org). This is all I will say, few will believe me. Of course any implementation methodology attracts big crowds mouthing off about pro's and con's. Anybody who has gone a bit beyond this knows that it takes A LOT of hard learning before you can do anything sensible in any of these environments.
That's all folks, I gave you away my best secret,
nononsense
