My 2c:

Away with BDE and ODBC!

I often use fixedlength ASCII file, which IB can handle as external tables
- fast for big one time imports.
..or TClientDatasets´CDS-flies (support Blobs, XML and easy to deploy - 1
DLL - no BDE)

IBX should not be affected by dbDirect, but they are both beta, so I go for
IBObjects - only use IBX for service API.

steffen






Fabrice Vendé - INFOCOB <fabrice@...> on 27-09-2000 16:53:44

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Subject: Re: [IBDI] BDE and Interbase futur ?

> 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
fabrice@...

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SARL I N F O C O B
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