firedac skill sprints - bde to interbase migration
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FireDAC Skill Sprints:BDE to InterBase Migration using
FireDAC
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David Intersimone “David I”
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How Skill Sprints Work. - Agenda
• READY– Tips tricks & short URLS
• SET– 20 minutes, 1 topic
• GO– Demo and discussion– Live Q&ADownload a free trial – NOW!
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What is FireDAC?• Multi-device Data Access Library• High-performance, easy-to-use, enterprise database connectivity• Universal data access, but with many database specific features• No drivers required and full source code provided• Migrate BDE to FireDAC
–Most BDE high-level types and components have counterparts in FireDAC–FireDAC has the BDE aliases migration function–Use reFind.exe, the Search and Replace Utility Using Perl RegEx
Expressions
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/FireDAC
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FireDAC Architecture
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FireDAC & OBDC with Paradox & dBase• Create an ODBC connection using MS Windows Control Panel • Drop TFDConnection component• Choose OBDC connection name• Drop TFDTable component• Set TableName property
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/Connect_to_ODBC_Data_Source_%28FireDAC%29
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DEMONSTRATIONFireDAC to Paradox via ODBC
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InterBase• Embed, Deploy, Relax• Highly scalable, powerful, embeddable, encryptable• Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux platforms• Editions: Developer, Desktop, Server, InterBase ToGo, IBlite
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase
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IBLite is Free • Runtime royalty free version of InterBase• Available on Windows, OS X, iOS and Android• Binary compatible on all platforms and editions• Directly upgradable to InterBase ToGo
–Full encryption support–No limit on database size
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/product-editions
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BDE App Migration• Migrate BDE to FireDAC
–Most BDE high-level types and components have counterparts in FireDAC–Use reFind.exe, search and replace utility (Perl RegEx)
• IBLite free distributable on Windows–Migrate legacy database data (BDE) to IBLite
• BDE – still available via separate registered user download– Install the BDE and install the components
• Clever Components InterBase DataPump–ADO, BDE, InterBase
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/Migrating_BDE_Applications_to_FireDAChttp://support.embarcadero.com/article/44082http://www.clevercomponents.com/products/datapump/
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DEMONSTRATIONBDE Migration to InterBase
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Resources• Blog post: http://community.embarcadero.com/index.php/blogs/entry/firedac-skill-sprint-bde-to-interbase-
migration-using-firedac
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/FireDAC
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/Connect_to_ODBC_Data_Source_%28FireDAC%29
• http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase
• http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/product-editions
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE7/en/Migrating_BDE_Applications_to_FireDAC
• BDE components in XE7 - http://support.embarcadero.com/article/44082
• InterBase DataPump - http://www.clevercomponents.com/products/datapump/
• Skill Sprints Landing Page - http://www.embarcadero.com/landing-pages/skill-sprints
• Skill Sprint playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwUPJvR9mZHhZTajVWsgaFPLtDA-t1Xwc
• FireDAC playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwUPJvR9mZHgjJ0JtSqJ-dv2cGtWr-jtq