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 | | From: | Pieter van Heerden | | Subject: | BDE development | | Date: | Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:59:14 GMT |
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 | Rumours are doing the rounds that no further developments are going to take place on the BDE, and that therefore it will die a slow death. Therefore, the rumour further states, one should shy away from database programs that use the BDE.
Any comments from dBase developers/users?
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| | From: | *Lysander* | | Subject: | Re: BDE development | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:16:55 +0100 |
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| Pieter van Heerden schrieb:
> Rumours are doing the rounds that no further developments are going to take place on the BDE, and that therefore it will die a slow death. Therefore, the rumour further states, one should shy away from database programs that use the BDE.
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> Any comments from dBase developers/users?
This is not a rumour, but an official statement by Borland/Inprise.
Nevertheless, you can safely rely on using BDE still in several years.
It runs under 32bit windows, and most likely will also run in later
versions.
This is, as long as you are accessing "native" database formats with an
application that was created using only dBase and nothing else.
You should expect problems, though, when accessing other databases with
your dBase-application. dBase-applications necessarily go via BDE to
access ODBC-drivers to other databases.
BDE, though, is in standard ODBC 2. Actual standard is ODBC 3.
It just means that most drivers and related software might not support
dBase-Applications, or that at least bugs won't be fixed.
ciao,
André
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| | From: | Ken Mayer [dBVIPS] | | Subject: | Re: BDE development | | Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:47:09 -0800 |
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| *Lysander* wrote:
> Pieter van Heerden schrieb:
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>> Rumours are doing the rounds that no further developments are going to
>> take place on the BDE, and that therefore it will die a slow death.
>> Therefore, the rumour further states, one should shy away from
>> database programs that use the BDE.
>>
>> Any comments from dBase developers/users?
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>
> This is not a rumour, but an official statement by Borland/Inprise.
> Nevertheless, you can safely rely on using BDE still in several years.
> It runs under 32bit windows, and most likely will also run in later
> versions.
> This is, as long as you are accessing "native" database formats with an
> application that was created using only dBase and nothing else.
>
> You should expect problems, though, when accessing other databases with
> your dBase-application. dBase-applications necessarily go via BDE to
> access ODBC-drivers to other databases.
> BDE, though, is in standard ODBC 2. Actual standard is ODBC 3.
>
> It just means that most drivers and related software might not support
> dBase-Applications, or that at least bugs won't be fixed.
It should also be noted that dataBI are (when last heard from on this
topic) planning on a new data layer in dBASE itself, that should allow
for not requiring the use of the BDE.
Ken
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/(Opinions expressed are purely my own, not those of dataBased
Intelligence, Inc.)/
*Ken Mayer* [dBVIPS]
/Golden Stag Productions/
dBASE at goldenstag dot net
http://www.goldenstag.net/GSP
http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase
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