GM - ODBC Data Access Components
Features:
- Only Delphi Standard/Personal edition required.
- Not using fat units like "forms". So projects without UI will stay small.
- Not derived from borlands TDataset (less code!).
- Exposing a small set of simple interfaces instead.
- Extremely lean and direct implementation avoiding additional data copying.
- Very clear and meaningful error messages from the ODBC standard.
- Use GM - Interface controls for data presentation.
- Very stable implementation.
- Intelligent SQL properties.
- Direct ODBC calls possible.
- Complete source code free for download.
Advantages of ODBC:
- Only a pure OS installation is needed.
- ODBC is available on almost all relevant operating systems.
- ODBC is a real standard.
- There is no database system without an ODBC driver.