Gee. All of my apps for the past three or four years have used ClientDataSet-based editing in Delphi 4 - 6 against a large variety of databases from IB to Oracle to SQL Server to Informix.... CDSs present a great way to cache changes on the client, keep the length of transactions to an absolute minimum, improve performance by having a fully functional dataset on the client when required, manage update conflicts, .... I wouldn't do editable data any way other than via a CDS. In addition, I do a lot of editable grids. I guarantee that in most cases I can do data entry faster in a grid that in a page full of fields. Plus, I can often find the data I want to edit more easily because I can scroll to it and edit it in place.

Don't get me wrong. I know there are many different ways to skin this cat. There are also many personal perferences that each of us has. However, I want many of the newcomers to realize that you don't have to make grids read only and you don't have to use IB transaction-based locking to build successful apps.

Louis Kleiman
SSTMS, Inc.

P.S. No, I don't use TTable. No I don't let a user fetch thousands of rows when he or she should just read one or a few. Yes I do use "select *" sometimes.

----- Original Message -----
From: Woody
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] minimizing transaction-open time


From: "Doug Chamberlin" <DChamberlin@...>
> At 05/08/2002 10:37 AM (Wednesday), Woody wrote:
> >Moving between
> >records then becomes: start transaction, read record, edit (or not), stop
> >transaction, start transaction, read record, etc., etc.
>
> Actually a much better way is
>
> Start trans
> Read record
> Commit
> Let user edit record taking all the time they want.
> When they save:
> Start trans
> Write updates
> Commit

This implies that you either use clientdataset components or non-data aware
controls. Both of these are usually not acceptable to beginners because of
their fallacies. Also, because I am stuck in a Delphi 5 infinite loop, I
don't have clientdatasets. Writing code to transfer information to and from
non-data aware controls can be very time consuming and difficult for those
just starting out. That's why I suggest my way instead. You are right,
though, if time and resources permit. <g>


Woody (TMW)


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