🚀 go-pugleaf

i am using delphi 5 pro and the adonis component suite from www.winsoft.sk
Using the ado dataset componente is very similar to bde so you can start
very
fast with writing programs. The best: no more installation of bde or odbc or
client drivers on the clients, everything is done by the database provider
and
MDAC wich is part of the windows operating system from win 98 till now
and the latest version is always free downloadable from microsoft homepage.
But there is a big difference in programming with access and with sql server
because access has no stored procedures and triggers which are the real
power
in client-server programming. So this is not a matter of bde or ado, is is
the
different functionality of the database!
My tip: buy the sql server developer cd, then you are allowed to use the
MSDE
(the litte version of sqlserver) totally free for developing and for your
customers also!
MSDE has much more power than access, but you can use access as frontend.
And try ado (or buy adonis - check their evaluation download).


HTH,
helmut

... no more bde for more then 3 years now!