[lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus? I'm looking for general information on this, and I ran into a dead end while trying to find the ODBC drivers, so I'm hoping somebody here has found a better way -- or knows where to find those drivers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Howard Lee Harkness wrote: > Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus? I'm looking > for general information on this, and I ran into a dead end while > trying to find the ODBC drivers, so I'm hoping somebody here has found > a better way -- or knows where to f

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
Ok, thanks -- I didn't know that there was a native connection. BTW, I did find the ODBC driver. On 3/29/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Howard Lee Harkness wrote: > Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus? I'm looking > for general inf

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try with http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB, support Lazarus and works fine for Firebird, Interbase and Yaffil. Include several components: TJvUIBDatabase. TJvUIBTransaction. TJvUIBQuery. TJvUIBBackup. TJvUIBRestore. TJvUIBScript.

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 3/29/07, Howard Lee Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus? I'm looking for general information on this, and I ran into a dead end while trying to find the ODBC drivers, so I'm hoping somebody here has found a better way -- or knows where to

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Joao Morais
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try with http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB, support Lazarus and works fine for Firebird, Interbase and Yaffil. You have also ZeosLib - http://zeos.firmos.at El jue, 29-03-2007 a las 10:23 -0500, Howard Lee Harkness escribió: Anybody on this list use Fire

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
I have been using Firebird with Lazarus in a commercial environment for over a year now, with great success. I highly recommend the FBLib Firebird Library [http://fblib.altervista.org] with Lazarus. The reason I chose FBLib over SqlDB (that comes with Free Pascal) is because FBLib has support fo

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try with http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB, support Lazarus and works fine for Firebird, Interbase and Yaffil. Include several components: I've used UIB components in Laz myself and they are good. Recently, I tried the PDO stuff and while it's not TDatase

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-30 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
I finally got Firebird installed and tested on my home system, so I am now in a position to start checking out how to access it with Lazarus. I've got some time this weekend set aside to work on migrating a 19-year-old database application that I wrote for an attorney (originally using Turbo Pasca

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-30 Thread Lee Jenkins
Howard Lee Harkness wrote: One of the utilities that was foresighted enough to write was one that dumps all of the tables into CSV format. Any recommendations for the best way to get a CSV file imported into a Firebird database? Not for lazarus. I have have some nice components for that sort

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can load your file with a TFixedFormatDataSet or a TSdfDataSet, and then copy to a dataset connected to the Firebird database. > Howard Lee Harkness wrote: > > > One of the utilities that was foresighted enough to write was one that > > dumps all of the tables into CSV format. Any recommenda

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-03-30 Thread Uwe Grauer
Howard Lee Harkness wrote: > I finally got Firebird installed and tested on my home system, so I am > now in a position to start checking out how to access it with Lazarus. > I've got some time this weekend set aside to work on migrating a > 19-year-old database application that I wrote for an atto

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-04-02 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
The Firebird website and IPPhoenix have lot's of tools for every task you might need :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-06-03 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
I managed to get Firebird running, and I was able to display the contents of a table in a dbgrid -- but my program insists that the database is read-only. I can't find where I set any read-only flags. Anybody recognize the problem & can tell me what I'm doing wrong? On 4/2/07, Razvan Adrian Bogda

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-06-03 Thread Cesar Romero
Howard, I managed to get Firebird running, and I was able to display the contents of a table in a dbgrid -- but my program insists that the database is read-only. I can't find where I set any read-only flags. Anybody recognize the problem & can tell me what I'm doing wrong? Is that in linux?

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-06-03 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
No, I am running Windows XP Pro. The files appear be writeable -- I can update them with FlameRobin ok, just not with my Lazarus program. On 6/3/07, Cesar Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howard, > I managed to get Firebird running, and I was able to display the > contents of a table in a dbgr

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-10-09 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
I imported the csv files using IBEasy+, which worked ok except that it doesn't appear to like values starting with a zero, nor does it like dates before 1900. On 6/3/07, Howard Lee Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I am running Windows XP Pro. The files appear be writeable -- I can > updat

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-10-10 Thread Lukas Gradl
Which Access-Components do you use? Unified Interbase (which I use) has only a readonly Dataset-Component, but there is some alternative Dataset for it, called AlexsDataSet. I never used it, but it is reported to do the job. (http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB) Alternativley you cou

Re: [lazarus] Anybody on this list use Firebird database with Lazarus?

2007-10-10 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op woensdag 10-10-2007 om 17:14 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Lukas Gradl: > Which Access-Components do you use? > > Unified Interbase (which I use) has only a readonly Dataset-Component, > but there is some alternative Dataset for it, called AlexsDataSet. I > never used it, but it is reported t