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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jeremy
Coulter<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 11 October 2004 15:58 p.m.<BR><B>To:</B>
delphi@delphi.org.nz<BR><B>Subject:</B> [DUG] ADO or SQLDirect
?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma; BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Hi
All. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma; BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">I
am just doing a bit of an investigation at the moment, and wonders what others
had found was best to talk to an MSSQL server with Delphi. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma; BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Do
you use ADO? or do use controls that talk to the MSSQL API like SQLDirect
?</DIV>
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<DIV
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