Delphi has hits native database engine called the Borland Database Engine, can be compared to the ODBC applet in the control panel but ways more powerfull.
Delphi comes in 3 versions.
1) Personal version, the BDE which ships with this version gives connections to paradox, dbase and access, enfim the desk top database systems, It also supports the ODBC drivers, but the performance with the native BDE drivers is far more better then any ODBC.
2) Professional version, comes with Local Interbase which is a limited RDBMS, there is a restriction on remote connections.
3) Enterprise, comes with ADO components, SQL-drivers for all the big players in the RDBMS industry like Oracle, Sybase, Interbase, DB2, Informix, SQL-Server, Fox Pro and others. It comes also with Interbase with a 5 user license for developping and testing Client-Server systems. S. van Els
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