Time to move on from BDE, ADO or dbExpress.

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Time to move on from BDE, ADO or dbExpress.

Originally shared by Delphi

Learn All About Accessing Databases with Delphi and FireDAC in this fantastic webinar replay by Pawel Glowacki.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW644fKdFic
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  1. Asbjørn HeidMarch 24, 2017 at 1:44 AM

    Sadly ClientDataset and the Provider are still needed in some cases due to limitations in FireDAC. Would love to ditch them completely.

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  2. Lars FosdalMarch 24, 2017 at 2:14 AM

    Asbjørn Heid What about TFDMemTable?
    docwiki.embarcadero.com - FireDAC.Comp.Client.TFDMemTable - RAD Studio API Documentation

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  3. Asbjørn HeidMarch 24, 2017 at 2:16 AM

    Lars Fosdal Nah, more to do with lacking Aggregate support and no Before/AfterUpdateRecord events.

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  4. Asbjørn HeidMarch 24, 2017 at 2:18 AM

    Oh yea and not really supporting calculated fields if you want to avoid specifying all the FieldDefs from the query manually.

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  5. Cristian PețaMarch 24, 2017 at 3:00 AM

    BTW TClientDataSet is not working on Linux because midas library is missing.
    Maybe is deprecated?
    I have a lot of code with ClientDataSet.

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  6. Lars FosdalMarch 24, 2017 at 4:20 AM

    Are the QP posts for these lacking / non-functioning features?

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  7. Cristian PețaMarch 24, 2017 at 4:24 AM

    Lars Fosdal unfortunately yes (22 dec 2016).
    Because this I think ClientDataSet is deprecated.
    quality.embarcadero.com - Log in - Embarcadero Technologies

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  8. Cristian PețaMarch 24, 2017 at 4:33 AM

    I started with BDE then moved to DBX and now UniDAC and TClientDataSet for non server things.
    I'm not sure if in the future to change TClientDataSet with TFDMemTable (very similar) or a more radical one. Maybe SQLite (with UniDAC).

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  9. Asbjørn HeidMarch 24, 2017 at 9:50 AM

    Lars Fosdal I have a few pending, need to take some time to write them down/make reproducible cases.

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  10. Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)March 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM

    Does it support dBASE files?

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  11. Attila KovacsMarch 24, 2017 at 1:14 PM

    Thomas Mueller FireDAC? Sure, over ADO->ODBC. Which is tricky, because as long you have BDE installed, it takes over the dbf handling. Once you uninstall it (or goes live on client pc without BDE), it will be served via the windows drivers and everything changes.

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  12. Brett WiltonMarch 24, 2017 at 7:50 PM

    Unidac has been great for this for quite sometime.

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  13. Cristian PețaMarch 27, 2017 at 6:21 AM

    From webinar:
    Q:
    TClientDataSet is not working for Linux. It is somehow deprecated?
    A:
    No, we only forgot to ship the matching shared object file

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