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{ Monthly Archives } May 2006

How to Retrieve the Native Handle of a TSQLConnection

Let’s say you want to share a connection to InterBase between IBX and dbExpress. For that you’ll need to retrieve the handle used by dbExpress and then use TIBDatabase.SetHandle to tell IBX to use that connection. But how to get the handle from dbExpress? Martijn Tonies pointed me in the right direction, and I wrote the following sample code…

FreeAdhocUDF

This is an update to Greg Deatz’s FreeUDFLib collection of User Defined Functions for InterBase. It supports Windows and Linux platforms and is tested with InterBase 7.5. There are additional functions and bug fixes. Thanks go out to the maintainers, adhoc dataservice GmbH.

Database Workbench

Martijn Tonies asked me if I wouldn’t mind plugging Database Workbench, and I’m happy to do so. I’ve used the product for several years, and overall I find it to be a good match for my needs. Read on for examples of stuff it does well….

Is Your App Internet-Facing Without Realizing It?

Posts like these always give me the shivers: "Subtle ways your innocent program can be Internet-facing without even realizing it." If you have ever written or intend to write an installer which creates a file association you really need to read this.

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