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Why you don't want to use BDE Alias?<br />

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Because I have to distribute my application to a large number of PC's, and I would prefer to have as little bother as possible with the BDE configuration.<br />
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AndersWP<br />

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Because I have to distribute my application to a large number of PC's, and I would prefer to have as little bother as possible with the BDE configuration.

AndersWP


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I don't know the answer, but it takes 2 lines to add an alias to the BDE, here is an example for adding an Alias named 'Sample' for Informix:<br />
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Check(dbiInit(Nil));<br />
Check((DbiAddAlias(Nil, 'Sample', 'INFORMIX', 'DATABASE NAME:SampleDB;' +<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'SERVER NAME:ol_ronit;' + 'USER NAME:informix;', True)));<br />
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for Access you will have to set other parameters, see BDE docs.<br />

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I don't know the answer, but it takes 2 lines to add an alias to the BDE, here is an example for adding an Alias named 'Sample' for Informix:

Check(dbiInit(Nil));
Check((DbiAddAlias(Nil, 'Sample', 'INFORMIX', 'DATABASE NAME:SampleDB;' +
            'SERVER NAME:ol_ronit;' + 'USER NAME:informix;', True)));

for Access you will have to set other parameters, see BDE docs.


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Right on the button!<br />
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Thanks,<br />
AndersWP<br />

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Invalid Alias Name error !<br />
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In Delphi you can access a Paradox database without using a BDE alias by setting the database object property 'DriverName' to 'standard' and setting the current directory to the directory that contains the Paradox table files.<br />
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Is there a way of doing something similar with an Access 97 datbase, i.e. accessing it through the BDE driver but without using a BDE alias?<br />
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Thanks in advance,<br />
AndersWP
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In Delphi you can access a Paradox database without using a BDE alias by setting the database object property 'DriverName' to 'standard' and setting the current directory to the directory that contains the Paradox table files.

Is there a way of doing something similar with an Access 97 datbase, i.e. accessing it through the BDE driver but without using a BDE alias?

Thanks in advance,
AndersWP

Using Access 97 without a BDE alias

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