Chapter 8. Database Development with dbExpress
IN THIS CHAPTER
dbExpress is Borland's new technology that provides lightweight database development to Delphi 6 developers.
dbExpress is important for three reasons. First, it is much lighter from a deployment standpoint than its predecessor, the BDE. Second, it is the cross-platform technology that you should use if developing applications intended for the Linux platform using Kylix. Third, it is extensible. To develop dbExpress drivers, one simply implements the required interfaces and provides the resulting database access library.
dbExpress's underlying architecture consists of drivers ...
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