> There isn't going to be a successor. Borland is replacing the BDE with a
> new data access architecture (dbDirect).

What will become IB express with dbDirect ?

> With IB Objects, FIBPlus or IBX you can hook up two (or more) IB databases
> to the same transaction and exchange data between them. InterBase

supports

> two-phase commit. What you can't do is heterogeneous JOINs, although you
> can create a heterogeneously-joined dataset with the TClientDataset and
> spin off some custom insert/delete statements from that... or use IB
> Objects for full two-phase commit support.

Ok I will try It.
What about a Tbatchmove for IB express ?

>
> >How to exchange data without BDE ?
>
> It depends on what you are attempting to do. If you have full Paradox,

you

> can export an answer.db to a fixed-length text file and read it into your
> IB databases as an external table. It won't work if you want to
> export/import blobs, though.

Yes I have blobs to exchange...

>Using ODBC with BDE for Paradox is a possibility and developers are working
> on BDE-independent ODBC drivers for InterBase.

I don't like very much ODBC I prefer do without it.

> hth
> Helen

Thank you Helen

If you know some word of french you can see a little presentation of the
program I am doing on:
http://www.infocob.com in Logiciel/ Infocob 2000 menu (It is a logiciel like
Symantec Act!, but only sell in France now).


Fabrice Vende
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