Helen - Wow!

See below...

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 08:41 PM 12/06/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Forget about the share. Use a connect string like:
> > > <servername or IP-address>:<drive>:\<full path>\<database

name>

> > > e.g.
> > > THESERVER:D:\DB_AREA\mydatabase.gdb
> >
> >That makes sense. We were never given any documentation with this,

so

> >I've had to learn everything by butting my head against it, hitting
> >it with sticks, or asking questions when I can't figure it out.

<grin>

>
> Documentation for IB6 - buy from Borland, or use the free beta docs

from

> the Downloads > InterBase page of www.ibphoenix.com - about 8 Mb in

toto -

> and the book you most need right now is the Operations Guide.
>
> From the ibphoenix site you can also download the Firebird

Quickstart

> Guide, which is 99% applicable to IB 6 (though it's not a Delphi or

BDE

> document). That's found on Downloads > Main Downloads.
>
> Did you realise that you can't deploy a BDE app without installing

the BDE

> on the clients? There's quite a bit of network setup to do for the

BDE

> itself, even before you start working down the driver layers. If

the app

> uses the Borland ODBC (Visigenic) driver, it sits atop the BDE and

the

> clients will need it too. (It should install with the BDE).

Actually, I believe the ODBC driver chosen by our developers is the
Intersolv driver. I'm not sitting in my workplace lab at the moment,
but I'm pretty sure that's the case.

Yes, we have to install the clients, but I'm devising my own push
script that will be executed automatically...

>
> If this is news to you, some good starting places would be
> - the help text for the bdeconfig utility and the file

BDEDEPLOY.TXT (found

> near the BDE installation files on your development machine)
> - search the Borl developer site for "BDE" and "deploy" - there

were

> several papers available in the past, though in recent cleanups in

the Borl

> knowledgebases some of the useful older docs seem to have gone

AWOL. (The

> BDE is really obsolete for IB 6...)

Yes, someone on the general borland interbase newsgroup gave me the
link to a whitepaper explaining that Borland has demoted the BDE in
favor of a more direct connection mechanism in dB Express or
something similar. The problem was that we also intend to support MS
SQL Server and Oracle, and our developers decided not to support two
code bases for the app... they chose the BDE. It is also compounded
by the fact that they started this project over two years ago!

> - join the public.delphi.database newsgroup at

news://forums.borland.com

> and ask for links to white papers
> - join the elists.org delphi-db mailing list
> <http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-db>
>
> Helen

Helen- you're awesome! Thanks again.

Best to everyone, and thanks for the very helpful info I got today. :)

-Gary