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| | Migrating from SQL Links to dbExpress using IBM DB2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Even in Delphi 7, you still have the BDE tab on the Component Palette, with the TTable, TQuery, TStoredProc, TDatabase, TSession, TBatchMove, TUpdateSQL and TNestedTable components (the last one is a recent one that we won't use). |
 | | The only downside is that the BDE is a Windows-only solution, running on Win16 for Delphi 1, and Win32 for Delphi 2 through 7, but not compatible with Kylix on Linux, for example. |
 | | Unlike the BDE, where a cursor was maintained in the database table or query resultset itself, the dbExpress components can only provide a resultset that you can inspect from first to last record, but that's all - no changes allowed, and no backwards-moving in the resultset. |
| www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0312swart/index.html (2521 words) |
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