Download - Moving from BDE to DBX

Moving from BDE to DBX

Robert Love | State of Utah

Agenda

Comparison of BDE to DBX Databases Supported Architecture Components

Tooling Code Conversion Data Conversion

Architecture Discussion

BDE

DBX

Application BDE SQL Links (optional)

Native Driver Database

ApplicationDBX

Driver

Native Driver

(optional)Database

Database Support ComparisonBDE DBX

MS SQL Server1 MS SQL Server2

Oracle1 Oracle2

InterBase1 InterBase2

DB21 DB2

Informix1 Informix

Sybase1 Sybase

ODBC ODBC3

- MySQL2, BlackFishSQL, NexusDB3, FireBird3, PostgesSQL3

Paradox, dBase, FoxPro, Access -1 Not Supported since 2002 2 Both Shipping and 3rd Party Driver

3 3rd Party Only

Vendors offering DBX Drivers

Embarcadero http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/

DevArt http://www.devart.com/

NexusDB http://www.nexusdb.com/

Open Source http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-dbexpress/

Most likely many others I have missed

Component ComparisonsBDE DBX

TDatabase & TSession TSqlConnection

TTable TSqlTable

TQuery TSqlQuery

TStoredProc TSqlStoredProc

TNestedTable TClientDataset

TBatchMove -

TDataSetProvider

TClientDataSet

Tools

dbxDataPump Demo in D2009 but download off Code

Central! http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/26288

ComponentConverter BDEtoDBXDataPump

http://robstechcorner.googlecode.com

Questions?

Robert Love - [email protected]

http://robstechcorner.blogspot.com

http://robstechcorner.googlecode.com