Database Tutorial - part 1Lazarus contains components for working with databases. In this tutorial, we'll set up a project with the still popular DBF format. Short history of DBFdBase was one of the first database management systems for microcomputers, and the most successful
in its day. In the early 1990s, xBase products constituted the leading database platform for business applications. Soon the xBase firms were acquired by larger software companies; thus, Borland purchased Ashton-Tate, and later on Embarcadero purchased Borland. From the start on, one of Delphi's strengths was in its ability to work with databases and its support for DBF based databases. However, the current Delphi versions don't support the DBF format any more. Our project: The GuitarClubWe'll show you how to set up a relational database management system (RDBMS) for our imaginary "GuitarClub". It will contain
tables for the club members and for their collector items (Members.dbf, and Guitars.dbf) plus some helper files. |