[DUG] DBISAM or Advantage

[John Bird]

SQL is not so hard to learn – if you are  going to learn anything new its amongst the more straightforward, and there are excellent references online, eg

http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2004/06/16/417/

TQuery, connected to TProvider, TClientDataset and TDatasource (or you could use TTable but TClientDataSet has advantages) and BDE is a simple matter to connect to eg Firebird or Interbase etc.

John Bird

From: Steve Peacocke 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 11:26 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List 
Subject: Re: [DUG] DBISAM or Advantage

I used DBISAM for a number of years. It has a solid reputation.

Steve

On Tuesday, 24 January 2012, Charlie <kerscher at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I've been using CodeGear 2007 with dBase and thus the BDE for several
> years. I'm thinking of changing to either BDISAM or Advantage since I
> don't think I have the skills necessary to use a SQL database; which, as
> I understand, would require changing from the use of TTables and TQuerys.
> Thus what would you recommend: Advantage or DBISAM?
> Thank you,
> Charlie
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