[DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

[Jolyon Smith]

Yes and No.

Starter Edition does not include DBExpress, only InterbaseExpress so you
cannot use DBExpress to talk to MySQL.  As the name suggests, you can only
use InterbaseExpress with Interbase databases.

However, you can still of course use ADO, ODBC or 3rd party DB Connectivity
libraries (just not 3rd party DBExpress drivers), just as you always had
this option with BDE versions of Delphi that did not include (and prevented
the use of) SQL Links drivers for client/server DB's or DBExpress versions
of drivers that did not include (and prevented the use of) the equivalent
DBExpress drivers.

So yes, you can use MySQL with Delphi Starter, but you'll have to use ADO or
some other MySQL component library to do it.

But no, Starter edition does not come with *anything* in the box that will
enabled you do to this as easily as you could with Interbase.  (note: it
doesn't even include dbGO, but you can still use ADO directly or using some
other ADO wrapper library)




-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:11
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

Hi Malcolm,

Looking through the feature matrix, I was not sure, can Delphi Starter
connect to an MySql database on local or other server please?

Paul

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