

If the customer already has a licensed version of the BDE Enterprise (v4) are they allowed to get an updated installer ?

I have even gone into %programdata% and manually searched for it and it is nowhere to be found.ĭo Embarcadero still sell or make available for download or to purchase the Enterprise version for clients ( not developers ) with a proper installer ?Ĭan a proper installer be obtained from anywhere ? However, I cannot find BDE_ENT.msi anywhere on my system. I installed BDE v5.01 onto my machine using the installer ( 30868_bde_installer_for_rad_studio_delphi_c_builder_10.3_rio ) and apparently in order to give the client the ability to insall the BDE I must find BDE_ENT.msi on my machine ( in %programdata% ) and then give them that file to install. Although you can use the BDE's API directly in your application, the components on the BDE category of the Tool palette wrap most of this functionality for you.I am sorry to ask about the BDE in 2020, but we are trying to move a client from Windows7 to Windows10 and then eventually from the BDE to FireDAC While this increases the size of the application and the complexity of deployment, the BDE can be shared with other BDE-based applications and provides a broad range of support for database manipulation. When deploying BDE-based applications, you must include the BDE with your application. Depending on your edition of Delphi, you can use the drivers for local databases (Paradox, dBASE, FoxPro, and Access) and an ODBC adapter that lets you supply your own ODBC drivers. The BDE provides a uniform interface to access a wide variety of database servers, using drivers to connect to different databases. The BDE defines a powerful library of API calls that can create, restructure, fetch data from, update, and otherwise manipulate local and remote database servers. The Borland Database Engine (BDE) is a data-access mechanism that can be shared by several applications. Consider migrating your existing database applications from BDE to dbExpress. You should not undertake new development with BDE.

For instance, BDE will never have Unicode support. Warning: The Borland Database Engine (BDE) has been deprecated, so BDE will not be enhanced.
