Mimer Borland Data Provider

When you have installed the Borland Edition of the Mimer Data Provider you can also access Mimer SQL as a Borland Data Provider. This allows you to use the classes in the Borland.Data.Provider namespace. When programming with this interface you use BdpConnection instead of MimerConnection, BdpDataAdapter instead of MimerDataAdapter and so on.

To allow this integration to work a special interface assembly called Mimer.Data.Bdp is used. This assembly is installed in the global assembly cache when Mimer Data Provider, Borland edition is installed. In addition the installation program adds Mimer to an XML-file called BdpDataSources.xml. By default this file is located in: C:\Program Files\Borland\BDS\2.0\Bin\BdpDataSources.xml

The following lines are added to the file:

<provider name="Mimer SQL" 
          connectionStringType="Mimer.Data.Client.MimerConnectionString, Mimer.Data.Bdp, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=36741a5a4e9064f1">
  <objectTypes>
    <objectType>Tables</objectType>
    <objectType>Functions</objectType>
    <objectType>Procedures</objectType>
    <objectType>Synonyms</objectType>
    <objectType>Views</objectType>
  </objectTypes>
</provider>

Test this by, for example, starting the Database Explorer in the Borland start menu shortcut.

Note: the version number must match the version number of the other providers in the file. If not, you may have problems accessing Mimer SQL through the Borland Data Provider.

Mimer Borland Data Provider

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