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In this article, we will discuss how to access data using ODBC driver in Microsoft Excel. We will examine in detail the data retrieving process.
Cloud technologies develop rapidly, more and more data is stored in the cloud. (more…)

TVirtualDataSet is a virtual dataset that can be used as an intermediate between data stored in an application and data-aware controls used in forms. TVirtualDataSet behaves the same way as any other TDataSet descendant and, therefore, it is compatible with all data-aware controls. However, it does not store data in memory. Work with TVirtualDataSet is implemented by means of events occurring during data exchange between an application and controls. As a result, you can choose a variety of entities as a data storage source: arrays, lists, records, XML files, etc. (more…)

The article describes installation and configuration of Devart ODBC Driver for QuickBooks on Windows, as well as authorization and connection to a QuickBooks account, and provides a demo sample of retrieving QuickBooks account data using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

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The VirtualQuery component allows executing SQL queries to sources that are not a database, but a TDataSet or any its descendant. It also allows you to connect to several data sources at a time and work with them using SQL queries as with a single data source. Thus, work in heterogeneous environment is implemented, when execution results of queries to different sources can be retrieved in a single data set. (more…)

One the major issues a developer encounters when using the SQLite DBMS in his applications is its performance issue.

Perhaps, a classic case everyone gets into when using SQLite for the first time is very slow execution of multiple INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations. Indeed, sequential executions of not even thousands, but hundreds of INSERTs into a table may take too long. (more…)

Data amount processed by modern databases grows steadily. In this regard, there is an acute problem – database performance. Insert, Update and Delete operations have to be performed as fast as possible. Therefore Devart provides several solutions to speed up processing of huge amounts of data. So, for example, insertion of a large portion of data to a DB is supported in the Loader. Unfortunately, Loader allows to insert data only – it can’t be used for updating and deleting data.

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LiteDAC and UniDAC interact with SQLite in 2 approaches. The first approach is that an application uses functions of the linked SQLite library. For Windows OS it is sqlite3.dll, for Mac OS and iOS – libsqlite3.dylib, for Android – libsqlite.so. The second approach allows to connect to the database from the application directly, using so called Direct Mode. Direct Mode provides interaction with SQLite avoiding any external libraries linking. It is implemented by embedding the code of the SQLite library directly to the application. This approach allows to work with SQLite in cases, when using third-party libraries is impossible due to a number of reasons. For example, when developing applications for iOS or Mac OS, the Apple corporation prohibits deployment of any libraries along with the application.

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Since RAD Studio XE7 Update 1 was released, the ETTracker.dll library was added to installation. Its purpose is obscure, but its presence in the installation caused serious problems for Windows XP users when installing RAD Studio XE7 Update 1. (more…)

Using SDAC in Direct Mode for access to SQL Server from iOS and Android platforms doesn’t significantly differ from the one on Mac OS X or Windows platforms. Let’s see how this works in a sample below for RAD Studio XE7. (more…)

Devart Company released SDAC and UniDAC for RAD Studio with a new functionality – Direct Mode for connection to SQL Server. The existing providers for SQL Server by Microsoft use the OLE DB interface, that allows using client applications only on Windows platforms. Due to absence of native solutions by Microsoft for Mac OS X, SDAC Direct Mode was the only opportunity to support SQL Server for Mac OS X.

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