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Paradox was created by Borland, as an integrated database management system and application development language for desktops and servers. It ran originally under DOS and later under Windows. It is a file based database system with each table in a separate file or files. Paradox for DOS had a built-in scripting language known as PAL, and used tables through version 4.5. Paradox for Windows was a Windows application that included event processing.

Paradox was created by Ansa/Borland, as an integrated database management system and application development language for desktops and servers. It ran originally under DOS and later under Windows. It is a file based database system with each table in a separate file or files. Paradox for DOS had a built-in scripting language known as PAL, and used tables through version 4.5.

Paradox for Windows is a Windows application that includes event processing. The database system is included in Word Perfect Office X8.

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Paradox DB file signature

I'm searching in web for magic numbers for Paradox DB files (.db), but there are no results. What binary signature for these files?
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Borland IDAPINST.DLL hanging Win10

I need to give support to a tool developed in Delphi 7. It is using Borland database engine. So i developed a installation kit which installs BDE and uses IDAPINST DLL functions. Till Windows 8.1, the tool was running perfectly in both the English…
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Connection String Help Microsoft Jet 4.0 Paradox

I am trying to connect to a server in PowerPivot. I am running across a few problems. Here is the connection string: Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\accounting001\Accounting\TimeSlips2014\Databases\Philadelphia\;Extended…
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Record Already Locked by this Session in Delphi over the network with long table names

I have found a problem in Paradox when using table names that are longer than 8 characters. If you have 2 table with names that are longer than 8 characters and the first 8 characters match, locking a record on one will be seen internally to…
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I am trying to open a paradox database (*.db file) with a paradox view and I get the message ("Network initialization falied.Permision denied.

I am trying to open a paradox database (*.db file) with a paradox viewer and I get the following message (Network initialization failed.Permission denied.File C:\PDOXUSRS.NET. Windows7
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Read paradox DBF files and import in H2 database

can i import DBF files (i think it is files of paradox database) into H2 database? I think a good solution is to write a small wrapper in java to read dbf data and save in h2 database, there is a jdbc driver to use paradox with java? Thank you.
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[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified - works fine in IDE - not once exported

I am developing a Java app (with ODBC bridge - forgive me - the only paradox driver I have been able to obtain is the Microsoft ODBC driver) which works fine in Eclipse (and NetBeans) - connecting and obtaining data from an ancient paradox 5.x…
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Delphi XE app using Paradox database stores time as 12:11:33 AM

I have a Delphi XE application storing to a Paradox database (BDE) into a Time field as 12:11:33 AM for every record. The date is storing today's date into the date field correctly. Here's the code: MyDatasourceDateField.AsDateTime :=…
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Number is out of range error in Delphi XE

I'm using an old Paradox database along with an older Delphi program I inherited and it keeps giving me a Number is out of range error when I hit this statement: POE_Data.OrdersTaxRate.AsFloat:= StrToFloat(Copy(TaxRateLabel.Caption, 1,1)); The…
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Paradox DateTime Importing to SQL

I do not believe this is possible but thought I may as well ask, before I go through each row correcting dates in this paradox table. Issue I have is: I am importing a Paradox table through the SQL Interface (right click Import) however some of the…
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Running 2 applications that read Paradox tables fails on Windows 7 (32 bits)

I have an application written in Delphi 5 which uses a Paradox ".db" database. My application makes a call to a set of scripts written in Perl and uses ODBC to access the DB tables to collect data and generate XML files. Everything works fine on my…
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Syncing a local database to an online database (Paradox -> SQL)

What would be the best way to sync a local Paradox database to an online SQL database? It only needs to be a one way system; I need it to upload a phone logging database into my SQL database. Currently I have a program that exports the table into a…
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Paradox (ObjectPal) Application causing General Protection Violations sporadically, looking for the Reason

we have a pretty big application based on paradox / objectpal. since we moved the database from filebased tables (paradox) to ms sql 2008 express edition, we encounter lots of general protection violations (GPV) which appear sporadically. these…
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Paradox DB: how to change database path programmatically

I want to change my database path programmatically. I have a folder with several tables, and my users should be able to change from one database to another. For example: active db: D:\app_db\db1 could change to D:\app_db\db2 void…
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Performing Chi square test for independence in sas- simpson paradox

I want to find out whether there is a relationship between how well the students did on a particular test and the level of dropout from education. I have a 2×2 matrix with the variables Level in test which takes the values level 1 and level 2, and…
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