ADO is pretty easy to use through COM. I imagine that the new Delphi 5
components are TDataSet relatives etc that allow the use of data aware
controls et al. The default ADO provider is an ODBC provider, so any
database you access through ODBC can be accessed through ADO.
Regards,
Andrew Cooke.
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> > > Is ADO suitably fast? Is it a viable alternative to the BDE and SQL
> links - is
> > > the D5 ADO support Native code avoiding the BDE installation hassles.
>
> > It TOTALLY avoids the BDE...no BDE's need apply.
>
> Excellent... Does the performance stack up?
>
> >Also, 'cos MS are only really supporting ADO/OLEDB for MSSQL...
>
> Do any other databases support ADO connectivity... EG ORACLE (hope,
> wish, grovel)... Are there rumours that they will do so...
>
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