Vom 7.-9. November 2016 findet im Hotel Melia in Düsseldorf die 20. Entwicklerkonferenz statt. Ich freue mich, dass ich dieses Event als Sprecher mit einem Vortrag über oData bereichern darf. Weitere Informationen findet ihr auf der EKON Homepage
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
Joachim Dürr – new Embarcadero MVP
It’s already a couple of weeks when I was nominated as Embarcadero MVP (most valued partner). By the beginning of may, I finally signed the MVP NDA, giving me great insights to Delphi development and access to latest RAD Studio
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
Erste deutsche Coderage
Am Mittwoch, den 13. Juli 2016 findet die erste deutsche Coderage statt. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Online-Konferenz rund um die Softwareentwicklung mit Schwerpunkt Delphi und C++Builder. Joachim Dürr softwareengineering ist mit einer Session dabei. Details zur Konferenz sowie
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,
Happy anniversary, ADS
In preparation to a session at the german Xbase user group meeting I realized a nice detail about Advantage Database Server. In 1991 Extended Systems released a software named ExtendBase. It was already version 2.0 – but the first version
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
Drop all indexes for a given table
There was a question in the german Xbase++ Forum how to drop all indexes for a given table in ADS if the table is part of a data dictionary (just deleting the index file won’t work in that case). The
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