| InterBase Data Access Components Features |
- General usability
- Direct access to server data. Does not require installation of other data provider layers (such as BDE and ODBC)
- Interface compatible with standard data access methods, such as BDE and ADO
- VCL, VCL for .NET, and CLX versions of library available
- Separated run-time and GUI specific parts allow you to create pure console applications such as CGI
- Unicode and national charset support
- Network and connectivity
- Disconnected Model with automatic connection control for working with data offline
- Local Failover for detecting connection loss and implicitly reexecuting certain operations
- Compatibility
- Full support of the latest versions of InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil database servers
- Support for all InterBase data types
- Compatible with all IDE versions starting with Delphi 5, C++Builder 5, and Kylix 2, except Delphi 8
- Wide reporting component support, including support for InfoPower, ReportBuilder, FastReport
- Support of all standard and third-party visual data-aware controls
- Allows you to use Professional Edition of Delphi and C++Builder to develop client/server applications
- InterBase technology support
- InterBase event support
- Comprehensive array data type support
- Advanced BLOB support
- Streaming (non-caching) BLOB access support
- Advanced generator support
- Advanced support for the character set OCTETS
- Support for the Firebird 2 EXECUTE BLOCK syntax
- Support for the Firebird 2 RETURNING clause
- Advanced locking for Firebird 2
- Automatic updates by DB_KEY unique field for Firebird 2
- Default value support for stored procedures
- Performance
- High overall performance
- Fast controlled fetch of large data blocks
- Optimized string data storing
- Advanced connection pooling
- High performance of applying cached updates with batches
- Caching of calculated and lookup fields
- Fast Locate in a sorted DataSet
- Preparing of user-defined update statements
- Local data storage operations
- Database-independent data storage with TVirtualTable component
- CachedUpdates operation mode
- Local sorting and filtering, including by calculated and lookup fields
- Local master/detail relationship
- Master/detail relationship in CachedUpdates mode
- Data access and data management automation
- Automatic data updating with TIBCQuery and TIBCTable components
- Automatic record refreshing and locking
- Automatic query preparing
- Support for ftWideMemo field type in Delphi 2006 and higher
- Extended data access functionality
- Separate component for executing SQL statements
- Simplified access to table data with TIBCTable component
- BLOB compression support
- Support for using macros in SQL
- Ability to customize update commands by attaching external components to TIBCUpdateSQL objects
- Deferred detail DataSet refresh in master/detail relationships
- MIDAS technology support
- IBCDataAdapter component for WinForms and ASP.NET applications
- Data exchange
- Transferring data between all types of TDataSet descendants with TCRBatchMove component
- Data export and import to/from XML (ADO format)
- Ability to synchronize positions in different DataSets
- Script execution
- Advanced script execution features with TIBCScript component
- Support for executing individual statements in scripts
- Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading
- Ability to use standard ISQL syntax in scripts
- SQL execution monitoring
- Extended SQL tracing capabilities provided by TIBCSQLMonitor component and DBMonitor application
- Borland SQL Monitor support
- Ability to send messages to DBMonitor from any point in your program
- Visual extensions
- Includes source code of enhanced TCRDBGrid data-aware grid control
- Customizable connection dialog
- Design-time enhancements
- DataSet Manager tool to control DataSet instances in the project
- Advanced design-time component and property editors
- Automatic design-time component linking
- Easy migration from BDE and IBX with Migration Wizard
- More convenient data source setup with the TIBCDataSource component
- Syntax highlighting in design-time editors
- Product clarity
- Complete documentation sets
- Printable documentation in PDF format
- A large amount of helpful demo projects
- Licensing and support
- Included annual IBDAC Subscription with Priority Support
- Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site
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