At 08:37 AM 23-09-00 -0400, you wrote:

>
>At 9/22/2000 09:38 PM (Friday), you wrote:
> >It is not possible to use Paradox as a front-end to any database but
> >Paradox and (original) DBase IV. pdox and pdxwin are integrated IDE's.
>
>Whoa, hold on there! This is flat out wrong and a big disservice to Paradox
>and the BDE. We have several Paradox applications running against
>Interbase, DB2, and MS Sql Server databases and they work fine. In fact we
>could not have developed them in anywhere nearly the short time we did if
>we had used Delphi or other development tools. The only thing we do is keep
>temporary and result tables to be native Paradox format and reside on the
>client machine's local drives. These apps access many GBs of data from the
>database servers in dozens of tables.
>
>ALl this is possible due to the flexibility of the BDE. While we cannot
>take advantage of some server-specific functionality you actually can get
>pretty far using this approach.

Doug,
How do you do it with IB 6. ?

Regards,
Helen

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