Thanks for your response. In fact, I did not have an idea what was
the difference in these editions. You opened a door a bit. When
debugging with the BCB Pro we use only three BDE VCLs: TDatabase,
TQuery, and TTable. Nothing else. This provides minimum functionality
we need. Will this work with Firebird?

Max Fish

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

> At 11:13 PM 10/07/2005 +0000, Max Fish wrote:
> >Thanks. We do not use the embedded database in the application.

Does

> >this meaan that we have to modify app in order to use firebird+BCB6
> >Professional?
>
> You seem to be confused about how a programming IDE should "work"

with a

> database engine. Could you expose a little more information about

how your

> application code actually interfaces with the database API? The

key areas

> you might mention here include ODBC, BDE, DBX, ADOBb, IB Objects,

IBX (to

> name but a few)....
>
> Borland's "editions" of a product are determined by what they leave
> out. So what it boils down to is this: does the Professional

edition

> exclude something you need in order to use the application

interface you

> want to use? One might guess, for example, that the Pro edition

might

> exclude the DBX libraries and/or a needed driver; or that the

TDataset

> hierarchy might be missing from the Pro version, precluding the use

of IBX,

> FIBPlus, et al. that rely on this hierarchy being present.
>
> You don't, for example, need the Enterprise editions of Delphi to

interface

> a native IBO application to a Firebird database....same goes for

BCB, at

> least versions 5 and below, that I know of.
>
> ./heLen