Re: ODBC-ing my app


>I have a perspective customer who will buy my product
>if I ODBC it. He's very DataBase savvy but wants to use
>his own DB... not my Advantage DB.
>
>I'm running D5... I don't even see the ADO component tab.
D5 only had ADO with the Enterprise version.
You need to move to a newer version of delphi to get ADO with the Pro version or
get a 3rd party component for ADO


>
>Is this a big job?
>Is D5 ADO usable by today's DBs?
>Should I move up to D7?
That depends on the database. ADO works really well for MS SQL server and
Access. for other databases it does not work as well as the native drivers.

If you are talking about using ODBC through ADO then you should ask about your
specific combination. ODBC drivers generally don't work as good with ADO as an
Oledb provider specifically for the database would work.
>
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