Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2007, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Joost van der Sluis:
> Op dinsdag 16-10-2007 om 02:19 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Marc
> Santhoff:
> > Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2007, 01:53 +0200 schrieb Mattias Gaertner:
> > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:10:08 +0200
> > > Marc Santhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > You should consider updating your lazarus/fpc, because some database
> > > bugs were fixed, new features were added and lazarus has now the
> > > lazdatadesktop tool.
> >
> > I will (see question 4). I only asked because i read an old book about
> > Delphi 3 for remembering how database access works. But since a table
> > held by a sql server is a generalization of a query (select * from
> > table) that fine with me.
>
> You should really update Lazarus. With an updated version, you also
> don't need the path to libgds anymore. The library is loaded
> dynamically.
I did already, I only need to find some time for testing now.
> The difference between the Delphi3 TTable and a query is more then the
> select. The TTable creates the SQL-statement, which has the advantage
> that it exactly knows what it's doing, so that the TTable is also
> updateable.
Okay, I read this as "TTable is sort of an ancient artifact" and one
should not care for future developments.
> Nowadays updating tables is done differently. For example SQLdb parses
> the supplied query, to see if the query is updateable or not.
Is there a rule of thumb, when a query is (or is not) updatable?
Thanks,
Marc
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