| Mimer Data Provider on Borland Edition for Delphi 8 |
Introduction
The Mimer Data Provider, Borland Edition for Delphi 8, gives you access to Mimer SQL from the Borland IDEs Delphi 8 and Borland C# Builder.
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Description
The Mimer Data Provider, Borland Edition for Delphi 8, supports the Borland Data Provider (BDP) which is Borland’s interface for rapid database development in .NET. In short, it can be seen as a unifying interface for different Data Providers, managed or not managed.
BDP acts as a wrapper around different Data Providers and gives a single database interface to work towards, i.e. the BDP interface. To connect to a database you use the BdpConnection regardless of the underlying database. Which database type to be used is defined in the connection string. (In standard ADO.NET you work in a non-unified way with the different Data Providers that the database vendors ships, or with the ones that are included in the .NET framework.)
BDP does not only unify different Data Providers, it also adds functionality. You can for example use the ISQLMetadata interface to get information about different database objects like tables, views, and procedures. With the interface ISQLDataSources you can get information about available providers and defined datasources.
When it comes to database transparency, BDP is actually quite similar to Mimer Provider Manager (Mpm), another unifying interface developed by Mimer Information Technology and released as open source. Both Mpm and BDP solve the problem with working with different Data Providers for different databases.
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Products
The BDP interface can be implemented by database vendors to achieve full integration with Delphi 8 and other Borland tools, and this is what Mimer Information Technology have done for Mimer SQL.
When Mimer Data Provider, Borland Edition for Delphi 8, is installed, Mimer SQL is listed and integrated in the same way as the other supported databases. You are not limited to just browse the database, you can also modify the data, commit or rollback the changes and issue arbitrary SQL commands.
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Links
Download the Mimer Data provider, Borland Edition for Delphi 8, from our Download page.
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Last updated: 2004-10-11
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