To follow up on that .

Downloaded 7.0 alpha and it is the same as 6.4 for now.

The migration assistant offers the chance to review a wiki page with
information about it, at
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/HowTo/MigrateFromHSQLDB

Which thanks mostly to Robert G. I believe has lots of good information
about it.

HTH

Drew

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:18 PM Drew Jensen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I can only pass on what I see in 6.4 right now.
>
> On fresh install
> - HSQLdb is still the default, but Firebird is available
> - Opening an hsql based file does not trigger the migration assistant
>
> Turn on Experimental features:
> - Firebird becomes the default engine.
> - connecting to an HSQL based base file will trigger the migration
> assistant
> -- this includes opening the HSQL based base file in any way, mail merge,
> from the beamer window and vie the Base GUI.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Drew
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:09 PM Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Release notes and related blog posts for Base 6.x say Firebird Embedded is
>> now the default, and DB files created using HSQLDB should be migrated to
>> Firebird. A Firebird Migration Assistant is mentioned. I’ve seen nothing
>> more about this (I may not be looking in the right places) and wonder how
>> much should be said in Getting Started Guide chapter on Base. Please
>> advise. Thanks.
>>
>> Jean
>>
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