Borland Database Engine

Here you'll learn how to use BDE without the visual approach. Despite visual components are easy to use, an in-depth knowledge of BDE is recommended for many good reasons.

For example there is no component to create, pack, index, reindex, etc. tables. The BCB programmer usually makes use of visual components to manage his database applications: drop a TDataSource on the form, and connect it to a TTable, and to some data controls...