Re: Book recommendations for database development

Hi Michael,

are there any good books which cover all aspects of writing database
applications in Delphi (currently using Turbo Delphi Pro)?

As you mention, my book is suited for Turbo Delphi Pro (except for the DB4 coverage in chapter 5).

I know Bob Swart has put his "Delphi for Win32 VCL Database Development"
into Lulu but from what I've read from the table of content it seems there
are not so many examples especially dealing with client datasets or using
data aware controls - but I may be wrong here ;-)

Check out chapter 3 - 20 pages on TClientDataSet, including a simple example how to do compression/encryption and coverage of aggregates (these where added compared to the first edition of the book which was only 68 pages - currently, the book is 132 pages).

So, are there other good articles online or books you would recommend?

Cary Jensen is also a fan of TClientDataSet, and you could see if you can locate one of his conference papers.

I'm interested in how is user data entered in the front-end, using DB aware
controls or perhaps just plain VCL controls? How is the input validated
before sending them to the RDBMs etc....

Chapter 1 contains a coverage of data-aware controls (which are used throughout the book for the example project), and also includes coverage of data entry validation on different levels (input, field, record and table).

Groetjes,
Bob Swart

PS: The book is constantly growing, and I'm currently adding DataSnap coverage. But that might lead to a new title on Lulu.com (or you could consider the PDF edition from my own site, which includes all updates to the PDF file for a period of 12 months).

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