Development environment: C Builder 5.0
First: the relationship between BCB and database
Many people develop database applications There is a conceptual blurry problem, that is, what is the front desk, what is a background. In fact, BCB develops database applications, which is the function provided by BCB, and operates databases through data links! The data link here refers to an operating system or a unified interface for database operations! For example,: ODBC, ADO, BDE, etc! Our database applications are for input or output by the user interface to achieve control (insert, delete, modification, query, etc.) for the background database through ADO or ODBC, BDE.
Second: Components and tools for BCB development database
To develop database applications, it is recommended to grasp the following tools and components:
1. Data Access Components and Data Perception Components
These two types of components have approximately 20 more. Data Access Components determine the type of access to the database, open mode, and database status; data-sensing components can use the data types in the database to select data from different components to access data.
2, data report components
Data report components are mainly used for output reports. If users do not need to output reports, such components can not be mastered. BCB has QuickReport, but this group of report components is not very useful as personal opinions. At this time, you need to use third-party report components, such as FastReport. After the report is reported in the future, all use FastReport components!
3, BDE Manager
BDE Manager (Administrator) is Borland's database engine management tool. It can set the BDE alias and path, set the database language drive engine (such as a Chinese drive engine), set information, and the information such as the supported database type and version.
4, database desktop
Database Desktop is a database maintenance application, similar to a small FoxBase, you can create, delete, and compress the database, you can modify the structure and index of the database, you can copy data from one database to another.
In the four-class components or tools, BDE Administrator is a database application support environment. If it doesn't, database applications cannot run (BDE-based database applications). The functionality of the database desktop can be implemented by the user yourself and use components.
Article 3: How to install database tools and instances
In order to be able to use the C Builder database function, please pay attention to the following settings when installing C Builder:
1, choose the Custom mode installation
This is not to say, everyone should know, that is, when the installer is selected to select the installation mode, select this.
2, select the database tool
When the Custom installation mode is selected, click Next:
Select the Database Desktop installation database desktop system tool;
Select Borland Database Engine to install Borland Database Drive Engine (BDE);
Select SQL Links to install various database support for SQL;
Select some shared data from Shared Files to install Borland products.
