For a couple of days Delphi starter was available for free from the Embarcadero Store at https://www.embarcadero.com/app-development-tools-store/delphi. A lot of developers from the Community asked me if the Advantage Database Server Components can be used with Delphi starter. In the
Advantage Delphi OData Client
As described here, the Advantage Web Platform enables all kind of applications to access ADS data without the need of using the Advantage Client Engine. In Delphi, you can simply use an HTTPRequest to interact with ADS. But – as
Advantage Web Platform
Beginning with version 11, Advantage ships the Web Platform, a web service that allows applications to communicate with Advantage Databases without having a specific Advantage Client Engine (ACE) available. The ACE is only available for Windows and Linux. Using the
Using ADS with Delphi 10.1 Berlin
As of today, Delphi’s latest edition 10.1 Berlin is not supported by SAP’s Advantage Database Server Delphi Client (V12). But there are a lot of ADS developers out there who want to use the latest version. As in the past,
Tutorial: using ADS with Lazarus
For a couple of years now, the Free Pascal RAD IDE Lazarus is well supported by Advantage Database Server. In this little tutorial I want to show how to use the actual ADS components in Lazarus. First of all, get
Using GUID datatype, multi-row inserts and GROUP_CONCAT
For a true unique primary key in a distributed environment, AUTOINC does not work well. So I always recommended to use either an AUTOINC combined with some kind of SiteId, or to use a GUID (global unique identifier). Prior to
First look at ADS 12
Without any public beta or pre-announcement, the most recent version of Advantage Database Server was released on October 21st 2015. This is the first version released after a new team took over the development in 2014. The list of enhancements