Database Architecture

Delphi's database architecture is made up of components that represent and properly encapsulate database information. Figure 7.1 represents this relationship as defined by Delphi 6's online help under “Database Architecture.”

Figure 7.1. Delphi database architecture.

Figure 7.1 shows the database architecture in its simplest form. That is, a user interface interacts with data through a data source, which connects to the dataset that encapsulates the data. In the prior section, we discussed different types of databases with which Delphi can work. These different data repositories require different types of datasets. The dataset ...

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