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Additional dbExpress driver options
By: John Kaster
Abstract: John K culled a list of third-party drivers available for dbExpress from the dbExpress newsgroups, and has compiled it in this article.
Third-Party dbExpress drivers
On the dbExpress newsgroups recently, I asked people to provide information on any dbExpress drivers they have written, because there seem to be more coming out all the time. I'm listing them here in the order they were provided to me on the newsgroup.
| dbExpress driver name | SQLTHINK.DLL / libsqlthink.so.0 |
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| Platforms supported | Windows, Linux |
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| Database supported | ThinkSQL RDBMS |
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| Language used | Delphi / Kylix (for driver and server) |
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| Download URL | http://www.thinksql.co.uk |
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| dbExpress driver name | dbExpress for ADO |
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| Platforms supported | Windows 9x/NT/2K with MDAC |
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| Database supported | Anything with an OLEDB provider |
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| Language used | Delphi |
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| Download URL | http://islamov.com/dbexpress/ |
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| dbExpress driver name | dbExpress for ODBC |
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| Platforms supported | Windows 9x/NT/2K with ODBC |
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| Database supported | Anything with an ODBC driver |
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| Language used | Delphi |
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| Download URL | http://islamov.com/dbexpress/ |
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| dbExpress driver name | dbExpress for MS SQL |
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| Platforms supported | Windows 9x/NT/2K with DB-LIB |
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| Database supported | MS SQL Server 7/2K |
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| Language used | Delphi |
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| Download URL | http://islamov.com/dbexpress/ |
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| dbExpress driver name | dbxoodbc - Open Source DbExpress driver for ODBC |
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| Platforms supported | Microsoft Windows. May work on Linux, but untested |
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| Database supported | Any ODBC compliant database. Vendor has personally tested against
Gupta (formerly Centura) SqlBase 7.5
IBM DB2 7.1 (personal edition)
Microsoft SqlServer 7 and 2000
MySql 3.23
Borland Interbase with EasySoft ODBC driver
It has been reported to work with
Oracle
Mimer
SAPDB
It does not appear to work with
Informix (column names truncated)
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| Language used | Delphi |
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| Download URL |
http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-dbexpress/ |
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| dbExpress driver name | dbExpress for Informix |
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| Platforms supported | Windows 9x/NT/2K, Linux |
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| Database supported | Informix 7,9 |
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| Language used | C++ |
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| Download URL |
http://www.luxena.com/download.htm |
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| dbExpress driver name | Easysoft dbExpress-ODBC Gateway |
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| Platforms supported | Microsoft Windows. Linux. |
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| Database supported | Any ODBC compliant database.
Fully tested with Microsoft ODBC Driver Manager
Fully tested with unixODBC Driver Manager
Linux access to over 100 ODBC data bases when used with the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge |
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| Language used | C |
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| Download URL | http://www.easysoft.com/products/9999/platforms.phtml?product=2202 |
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If you provide a dbExpress driver, please add a comment to this article to list it here.
Thanks! I hope you find the database connection solution you need either with the dbExpress drivers Borland provides, or those available from a third party.
John Kaster, Borland DevRel
