You are wrong here Nic.
I regularly make changes to both Live and Dev Databases with no loss of data
and No Corruption. It is possible (but not common) to screw a database with
accidental
stupidity, (I know) but with a little care, you can change Meta data quite
safely.
You do it like this.
Dro
file://Some Stuff because the Mailer doesn't like a first word of Set
-Original Message-
From: Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Interbase Error : What am I missing h
I only check my mail every few hours so please excuse Delayed Response.
If you suspect your DB is suffering some problems possibly due to your
experiments, then Simply Back it up, then Restore it and that will fix
everything.
Incidently, when restoring, the usual best page size is 8192.
SQL7 S
Willie, I think I modified this wrapper in the last year to give back an
error code. I'l send you the code privately.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2000 3:20 PM
Subject:
best product range and quality IMO of course, is Symbol from Computer
Enhancements - Grant Dockery. Now owned by Advantage.
Cheers...
-Original Message-
From: Kerry Sainsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2000 3
For a start, it appears like you need to know about Generators?.
The essential elements are:
Create Generator GenSomeGenerator
Set SomeGenerator to 999
Update SomeTable set SOmeIntegerOutoIncColumn to gen_ID(genSomeGenerator, 1)
Insert into SomeTable (Columns Roster)
Values(Gen_ID(GenSomeGene
Just to clarify.
QRV3 swarms with AV's in the QR Preview. - I gave up trying to fix them.
QR2 is OK, but is very leaky.
So if you are using QR2 for your current Code, then it should Preview
without AV's.
Good Luck,
Tony.
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From: Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
Yes, but I dont think this has happened yet. this was mentioned on the Midas
Chat the other day.
Actually I had forgotten about the mention it got at the conferance!
Cheers,
Tony.
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From: Stephen Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL
>>Surely you must be joking! CachedUpdates? That creates paradox files all
>>over the show! Its a nightmare - the ultimate in fat client technology!
>>Just imagine, *WHEN* your program crashes, it leaves these MB files in the
>>client's hard disk - it soon fills up.
>
>Shurely?! :) I don't
d everyone associated with its release
including B should be utterly ashamed.
Good luck,
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 29 January 2000 16:30
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Quick Repo
-Original Message-
From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 29 January 2000 00:28
Subject: Re:[DUG]: MIDAS - Here we go again
>* Using MIDAS
>* 3 Tier Model (Presentation, Application, Back End)
>* One "Master" Da
Mark, I presume this is QR3 or later? If so then go back to QR2.
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 28 January 2000 21:41
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Quick Report Preview
> -Original M
Maybe we should call your definition Ultra thin Denis?
Really I want to bail from this thread, but its Friday so...
About DA Controls, yes I agree there are occasions where they are
inappropriate, but remember your original statement was "Who needs em?"
In Midas stuff we are using, the client q
wan B.E. E&E
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From: Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2000 12:11
Subject: Re: [DUG]: ADO access
> Interesting Comments Denis.
>
> Actually, where I am rig
Interesting Comments Denis.
Actually, where I am right now, we have someone specializing in using ADO,
and this person has been spending more than 12 hours so far trying to
install ADO (without installing Delphi!) onto a Clients machine. Right now
he is looking pretty pissed with ADO! Personally
You need iether ADO OR BDE/SQL Links. Take your pick - they are both
available in D5 Enterprise for royalty free use. You dont need both.
No doubt your Email will start yet another war aimed at both techniques on
the list. Fact is both work well. Just start using them. Both are fat
solutions.
Wi
Here is a quick hack.
function SelectDirectoryEx(HWND: HWND; Title: string; Flags: DWORD): string;
var
IDL: PItemIDList;
bi: TBrowseInfo;
DN: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
M: IMalloc;
begin
Result := '';
Fillchar(bi, SizeOf(bi), #0);
with bi do begin
hwndOwner := HWND;
pszDisp
Ah Denis - Predictable responses from A Web Man V a Midas Man. Midas is
pretty cool - dont knock it until you try it! But then have you tried IB
lately?
Cheers,
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Dennis Chuah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dat
IMO there is no question that IB Server Manager is inadequate. It does the
bare minimum of admin, and is not at all usefull as a developers right hand
tool for developing and tuning SQL. nor is it in any way usefull for
designing and maintaining a database model.
However, there are numerous excel
And if you want an even more extreme point of view on the topic than Nic's
yes its possible) then talk to me. I did a thorough review of SQL Server
just 3 months ago including lengthy discussion with MS Guru's on the
subject. In Summary dont waste time - go straight away to Interbase - a
porpper
I would appreciate if all messages sent to me were in plain text only,
without attachments unless requested, and definatly did not have digital
signature. During
the working day I have a VERY slow phone connection and all this bloat is
very difficult for me, wastes time, and sometimes locks up my
To anybody contemplating using this combination in an Appserver, Make sure
you down load the latest version of IBX from the Interbase site. The D5 out
of the box IBX components do NOT work with MIDAS. On quick appraisal, the
latest IBX components appear fine.
Cheers,
Tony.
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Neven, this is NOT A JOKE. Solids are hitting the ventilations system hard
and fast, with huge amounts of traffic on this subject on the Interbase
list.
Reading between the lines, I suppose the M$ "Get your free database here"
policy is at least part of the cause.
Cheers,
Tony.
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From: Paul Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 22 December 1999 01:15
Subject: The next step
>
>A brief recap:
>
>Last Friday several top managers of resigned from InterBase because they
finally
>accepted that they did
yea, and if you take a look at Sysutils and Examples/Calculator.pas you will
find everything you could possibly need to assist this.
-Original Message-
From: Neven MacEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, 20 December 1999 9:55 AM
Correct on the 10 user count
-Original Message-
From: Peter J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, 19 December 1999 08:50
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Databases
I would need to check this but I think you will find that WKS has a 10 user
g the license fee. It's not as easy as the demos and
documentation (HA! What documentation) make out.
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From: Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:48 AM
Subje
Have you checked out Orpheus from Turbopower? Or did that piss you off also?
I haven't used it since Delphi1, but it was pretty damned impressive then.
If you haven't tried it, then suggest you download the demo from
www.turbopower.com. I'm Interested to here what you settle on eventually.
Cheers
I would suggest that the people interested in this Age thing spend 1 hour
reading SysUtils.Pas, then if there are any questions left, read the old
example 16 bit Calendar component code still resident in Delphi. If there
are still questions, then try a VB solution.
-Original Message-
Fro
Where you been hiding the last week? - Life was nice and quiet!
The best set of Edit Controls I have seen is Orpheus by Turbopower. Wade has
some components he made that provide an adequate solution also. I use
Wades - Thinner than Orpheus.
Cheers...
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From: Neven MacEwa
-Original Message-
From: Donovan J. Edye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Databases
P,
Thanks for that..
#1 - I have the 2 years MS-SQL wise.
#2 - Seems to be the go
I missed the original thread for this, but using Midas assists designing an
application architecture offering multi DB platform support. Its still hard
work, but is possible without a total re write. Midas is a star in the
Client Server development arena.
Tony.
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From: P
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In your TDatabase Parameters set Enable BCD = True
If you are using a BDE Alias (yuk) then use the BDE administrator to do this
in your alias.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Heinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 8 December 19
I use Wise Install Builder 7.x, and am reasonably happy with it.
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Max Nilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 7 December 1999 17:44
Subject: RE: [DUG]: InstallShield
Patrick Dunford asked of me:
-Original Message-
From: Dennis Chuah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 2 December 1999 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: TStrings.Objects
> > How do I use an Object property (declared as TObject) to do
> this? Do I
> > create my o
Does anybody know of any documentation/examples or have any working
knowledge of these components?
There seems to be an absence of any usefull information except for the Mast
App example in D5 which is somewhat trivial.
Thanks,
Tony.
You can solve it by setting the Identity of the server
to Interactive User. You can set this by using DCOMCNFG.EXE. Once you want
to release, the best setting is "This User", but that means no visual
interaction with the app server.
-Original Message-
From: Julien Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTE
I'd like to take a look at that thanks Neven,
T
-Original Message-
From: Neven MacEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 30 November 1999 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: TDBLookupCombobox
Eion
I use the Softtouch combo for this r
You aren't going to like this!
Is your database Client Server??? or local. If Cs, then you SHOULD_NOT_USE
this control. It is very inneficient. In general (even for local database)
you are better to manuallt populate a standard TCombo - you can use the
TStrings.Objects to store the ID, and the ite
These two lines may be usefull to you - using a combo for the printer
selection...
{Populate Combo}
FComboPrinter.Items.Assign(Printer.Printers);
{getting it back}
Index := FComboPrinter.Items.IndexOf(Printer.Printers[Printer.PrinterIndex])
-Original Message-
From: Alistair George <[
You need to delete the .lck file, and probably the .net file, but this can
be hard because often Delphi retains a phantom connection - so you are
probably faced with carrying on as you are, and avoid Program Reset if you
can.
-Original Message-
From: Leo Ramakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: M
-Original Message-
From: Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1999 11:22 AM
Subject: IB Express
>Hi.
>
>Has anybody noticed that with a DBGrid when you change from a BDE Dataset
to
>an IBDatas
These things happen from time to time on all lists. The IB list is pretty
good at this + the odd bit of Sex trade as well.
Ya cant go along for ever expecting everybody else to protect you. Learn to
live with it. Nics got better things to do.
-Original Message-
From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PR
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From: Neven MacEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 18 November 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: [DUG]: IDE
Hiya All
When Opening a Project is there any way to Autoload datamodules
I dont think so...but you should
Log on as Administrator, Use Reg edit to export the Borland Hive from the
Software registry. Do this for both Local_Users and CUrrent_USers, and in both
cases save the registry export soemwhere that you have acces from your other
local account logon
Log off from admin, and log back on as Lo
He sure is worked up!
For a start, he says he dont have the stuff for data pump, then says he
deploys CS applications using SQL Links. If he does in fact use SQL links,
then he must have the enterprise version and that means the datapump
stuff...but thats an aside anyway.
I use Wise 7 with no pr
-Original Message-
From: Rohit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>What springs to mind is "Much ado about nothing" :-)
>
>
Thanks. Thats a usefull response.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tony Blomfield
Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 14:47
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: ADO Query Question
HI.
Heres the problem.
Imagine a query like thi
HI.
Heres the problem.
Imagine a query like this
Select 'T', Description from Sometable
The reason for the pseudo first column in this case is simply so we can set
a checkbox in a DB grid. The user can walk up and down the grid checking or
unchecking items, then when he clicks OK, processing t
-Original Message-
From: Donovan J. Edye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: [DUG]: Freeing forms. Confusion
Try something like this
implementation
uses Unit2;
procedure Blah...
var
I have found the same thing in a Union Query where the same parameter name
is used each side of the Union TADOQuery creates 2 parameters with the same
name. Further, I find that if I populate the query statically at design
time, the Q performs as expected BUT
If I populate the SQL text at run tim
I have my own set of problems...
I have a union query which definitely does not produce duplicates. when
connected at Design time, it gives a good result in a dbgrid. However at run
time every row is duplicated, in a way that sugests the union query is
actually producing duplicate rows, but only
OLLBACK
--Random pause
END
COMMIT
RETURN(@SurrogateKey)
This is off the top of my head but hope it helps
Regards Neven
N.K. MacEwan B.E. E&E
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From: Tony Blomfield
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 4 November 1999
I also experienced this problem and was unwilling to waste time resolving
it. It was better to abandon QR in favor of another report builder.Which
version of QR and Delphi are you using? I was using Delphi4 with QR2.
-Original Message-
From: Ebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipie
ge-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tony Blomfield
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:47 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: Generators - Sequences, and Identities
Unless I have missunderstood, SQL7 has no equivolent of Interbases
generators
OK. All accepted, and I dont want to embark on a religious conversion...
I accept there are 2 schools on this subject...and I belong to the surrogate
school.
To me it goes like this...
You have only 1 column involved in the PK
Its allways as fast or faster - never slower
Its a hell of a lot eas
: Generators - Sequences, and Identities
>We use a separate table to maintain the nextID for all the tables.
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Tony Blomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:47 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of
Unless I have missunderstood, SQL7 has no equivolent of Interbases
generators, or Oracles Sequences? Instead it has the identity data type
which is akin to Access or paradox Autoincrement columns.
The only time you seem to be able to see what your identity value was/is is
immediatly following a i
Are you feeling allright? Only an Informix neandothil could say that with
sincerity!-Original Message-
From: Greg Amer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Editor Macros
Ever heard of v
Thanks for the Feedback.
On the surface it doesn't seem like a hell of a lot of strong reasons to
change technology from the dog ya know to the one ya dont.. I'd really like
to hear some compelling reasons to do it.
On the surface so far, It looks like ADO just does what the BDE does - no
more
QEdit is/was terrific!
-Original Message-
From: Nahum Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Editor Macros
>I think that I found out about the record/playback in D3 because of some
>
ummm... about 3 years ago or perhaps more!!
-Original Message-
From: Mark Derricutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 3 November 1999 1:29 PM
Subject: [DUG]: Editor Macros
>Excuse me Mr Borland, but WHEN exactly did you add ed
Hi.
What are the complications of changing from using BDE to using ADO?
1. Are there Deployment issues? Can we expect to find ADO is just "There" or
do we need to go off at a tangent regarding deployment issues, and become
devoted upgrade trackers?.
2. Does it offer better performance and great
You are probably right. Iether way, it doesnt worry me. A few megs is
niether here nor there .
IMO the BDE install from Borland does not appear to be compressed (oddly
enough)
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The 5.01 Update is very handy. Basically it takes a look at what ever BDE
is installed, and does the neccesary parts correctly. So it covers every
possible situation. You dont have to worry what you are upgrading from.
Take note that it only upgrades and does not add or remove any BDE
components,
-Original Message-
From: Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 22 October 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5
from
> Borland and apply that at every site. The 5.01 Update wor
-Original Message-
From: Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 21 October 1999 21:35
Subject: [DUG]: Requirements for application upgrade D3 to D5
Hi guys
OK - a more carefully considered question!
This is the first
Hi.
Anybody looking to share room costs for nights of 13th 14th 15th October
please call me Cellphone 025 881 657
TIA
Tony.
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To those who use V 6.X version 7 is out and is MUCH faster - minutes instead
of hours.
Cheers,
Tony.
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Hi.
I have a certain fairly complex report built by someone else in QR.
This reports runs fine on one box with NT4, SP5, IE4, but on a second box
with NT4, SP5, IE5, the report crashes totally.
Testing on a few other machines, and it seems that this particular report
does not like IE5.
Can any
produced a 32-bit OCX version for VB4/VB5. Can't remember the name of
the company - I haven't worked with VB for a long time now.
Dennis.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Tony Blomfield
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 Octob
Phew. Yes I had a suspician it would not be easy - or small. If I get into
this, then for the moment my GPOS is not differential, but that doesn't
matter for the development. There are some Diff sites up here I could access
though. (America cup ra ra ra does have some benifits)
I already have the
HI.
I have an urge to write my own GPS plotter software. This is purely a hobby.
I am interested in taking a paper map, and scanning it in, then writing some
picture clean up and documenting stuff. I also need to figure out how to map
the lat long coordinates on to the image, which map projection
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Date: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ
Tony Blomfield wrote:
>
> Vis Studio comes with Rational Rose.
Have you _used_ Rational Rose?? I was exceptionally unimpressed. The
method is OK, the tool is crap.
Not that the ot
gt; To: Multiple recipients of list DELphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ
>
>
>
>
> Tony Blomfield wrote:
> >
> > Vis Studio comes with Rational Rose.
>
> Have you _used_ Rational Rose?? I was exceptionally unimpressed. The
> method is O
Sorry to But in Mark, I haven't been following this thread iether but
perhaps the following procedure has something in it to help you. It selects
the printer Index for a given printer name... Perhaps it is usefull to you,
else sorry for wasting space.
procedure SelectPrinter(PrinterName: string;
, though they are supposedly
keeping Visio as a subsidiary - like Lotus at IBM - h.
Max
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tony Blomfield
Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 08:19
To: Multiple recipients of list DELphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN
Ah Max, but in my position, would you feel so compelled to spend
3.5K only one year later to go from D4 to D5.?
Really, I think its up to Borland to try and sell me on this one.
I just dont see the pay back is there.
Is Corba fully implemented in D4? Or do we have to buy extra stuff to do the
m
Use CreateProcess
-Original Message-
From: Rohit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 17 September 1999 4:01 PM
Subject: [DUG]: ShellExecute
>ShellExecute returns an instancehandle. WHat use is this ? Is there
>someway I can
I use Report Builder Pro to do Barcode labels on a variety of stock with
success. Typical time to implement a new label design is ten minutes. Think
I'm slow though. I really should implement the end user designer so the
customer can do this. This is for a specialised barcode printer.
Dunno if th
a price!
Guesse I'l sit this one out.
-Original Message-
From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 16 September 1999 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: ANN: Delphi 5 shipping in NZ
Tony Blomfield wrote:
&g
What is current price from SC for upgrade D4CS to D5 Enterprise please.
Perhaps a general review of all pricing on the list might be usefull with
realistic delivery times for each. Is this possible?
When will SP1 be out?
-Original Message-
From: Mark Derricutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mu
Has this anything at all to do with Delphi?
-Original Message-
From: Colin W Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 15 September 1999 9:02 PM
Subject: [DUG]: Informix
Hi
Anyone had experience logging into an Access Db via In
Save IB
I am trying to organise a VAR program, along with some other programs but
they
may take a few months. If there is anyone else supporting Tony's view, then
emailing Annie (GM of Inprise NZ) is a good idea - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
and
tell her you think an Inprise InterBase VAR program would b
Na...
I doubt that little IB is a target for MS marketing strategy. Anyway, deep
down in the heart of matters SQL Server is still just crappy old Sybase DB
Lib with heeps of glossy bloat BS over the top. If you want a cool small SQL
database, then IB is where its at. Free doesnt mean good. Undern
Count me in.
TonyB
Definitely... Cost will however be an issue to those with the
pursestrings... I'm very
keen... The centralised processing and interface independance have too many
customers interested to ignore this technology...
--
Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Jump Productions
(07) 838-3371 Voice
I completely agree with this part.
>If you want to make stuff really thin, then you must at some stage cache
>data on the users (client) PC and only update it when there is a change in
>the same data on the server - this can be very effective for all those
>lookup tables that don't change very of
x27;t see how you can
avoid moving the data that you need the user to see anyway.
Max
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tony Blomfield
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 20:16
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Thin Data
OK.
Well Thanks for all the points of view. As I am just starting a new project
from the design up, it is a greate time to review my "favoured archetecture"
and decide on a new approach or not. Its a hard decision to make because,
there are several favoured strategies out being used by very exper
There seemws to be very little mileage in going this way.
1. Is this really "Thin" technology is per my earlier goal statement.
2. Financially the only winners in this race are Borland. From what I read
there is absolutely NO financial incentive for me to go down this road.
Loosly put, anybody i
Thanks. I'l check it out.
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Xander van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To:
Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date:
Thursday, 2 September 1999 9:28 PMSubject: Re: [DUG]: Thin
Database Components.
Here are three URLs that I picked up
sbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, 2 September 1999 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Thin Database Components.
On 2/09/99 at 20:16 Tony Blomfield wrote:
> By "Thin" I am referring
>to designing applications
Thanks for the replies.
Bypassing the BDE is not an objective in itself. By "Thin" I am referring
to designing applications in such a way as to minimise the network traffic,
the objective being to make the app run as fast as poss over a narrow pipe.
(56K Modem) Take a look at a telnet session in
1. For Interbase we have FIB and IBO
2. For Oracle we have ODA ?? Components.
Does anybody know of similar components for working with the
Database API for SQL Server 7, and Informix?
TIA,
Tony.
Will the bugs be migrated successfully to D5??? After all, D4 was never
finished was it. How about a report generator that works.???
Add on the cost of a report generator, and Install builder kit, and D5
upgrade is not looking all that affordable.
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Hi Yanbo.
Yep, the O8 client was fully installed with every option, and SQL*Plus
appeared to work fine. The only thing I have to go on is the fact that the
BDE VendorInit seems to ignore its own settings and go for the Borland
default file.
I expected the BDE alias to be very simple.. but not so
there are a zillion options ]
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On 19/07/1999 at 16:43 Tony Goodrich wrote:
>I have heard that you can connect directly to Oracle without using the
>BDE using something with a name like Direct to Oracle Access (DOA).
>
>> -Original Message
>BDE using something with a name like Direct to Oracle Access (DOA).
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Tony Blomfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Saturday, 17 July 1999 10:18
>> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
>> Subject: [DUG]: Connection to Or
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