[Lazarus] Dbase tutorial

[Larry Dalton]

Is there a way to use microsoft excel spreadsheets?

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> On Jul 4, 2015, at 11:04, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
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>> On 07/04/2015 09:20 AM, Larry Dalton wrote:
>> Where can I get a tutorial for using dbase on lazarus?
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> "dbase" as in the old dBase database stuff or "dbase" as in coding for and using (SQL) databases?
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> IIRC and unless something has changed that i'm not aware of (quite easy), the dbase interface code is only really for reading that data... today's databases are all SQL databases which offers a lot more capabilities and is really where you should look... if you have an existing dbase database, you might consider to convert it from that format to SQL and store the information in a modern database...
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