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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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Database errors in Quantum Grid demos in Delphi XE Professional

Whenever I open one of the Quantum Grid demos in Delphi XE Pro (on Windows 7 32-bit), the following error is displayed for every table (I think) in the project: error message http://www.tranglos.com/img/qgerror.png The message is: Network…
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Odbc Paradox Driver WHERE clause Date

I am using an Odbc driver with Paradox. I have a table with a date in it. I am trying to query by the date in that column. I can't seem to get the where clause to work. I can get the record searching by ints, but I don't know how to use the date…
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Delphi TTable.Exists fails on Paradox table even if database tables exist

When I create a table object (Table1) from scratch and assign the TableName property to an existing table on disk, the Table1.Exist function fails. I'm using Delphi2010 and it is a Paradox 7 table. filename := ZipMaster1.DirEntry[i].FileName; if…
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BDE and Slovak language. Is there any driver for it?

We have an application built in Delphi 5 which uses Paradox Tables and BDEADMIN. One of our clients needs to use Slovakian Characters like ž I've been googling all over and testing but I can't find the right language drivers in BDEADMIN to work…
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Is it possible to read to a Paradox 7.x .db file in a .Net app?

I'm trying to read a Paradox 7.x .db file in a .Net 3.5 app and I'm not being successful on that. First of all, when I'm registering the odbc, as a user or system dsn, the Microsoft Paradox ODBC Driver only display versions up to 5.x, so it looks…
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Paradox Table - Oledb Exception: External table is not in the expected format

I am reading some Data from a Paradox table with Oledb. The Problem I have is the code works when I copy it to a console Application but not in WinForms. Both debug as x86 and I literally just copy the code. In the WinForms App i get the External…
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WPF Drawing Paradox

How is it possible, that 2 ellipses with the same Radius where not (visually) with the same Radius? in the image bellow, Black and Red ellipses has the same RadiusX... but look on the picture! …
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"NOT NULL" column in Paradox DB?

Is there any way to prevent a null-fields in Paradox? When I try i exec. CREATE TABLE "users" ( user_id INTEGER NOT NULL ) I get Capability not supported. (BDE error 12289). When there is no "NOT NULL" args - it's OK. P.S. I work in SQL explorer…
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Is it possible to use nHibernate with Paradox database?

Is it possible to configure nHibernate to connect to Paradox database (*.db files)?
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python2.7 difficulty to convert a binary signed double to ASCII

It will probably sounds like a stupid question but I can not find a way out. I need to read paradox files (.DB) and to convert it in traditional .CSV files. I found a nice module (https://gist.github.com/BertrandBordage/9892556) which does that ...…
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How can I view Paradox database files with Arabic characters?

I want to read a database which contains Arabic characters. I want to convert it to SQL or Access. I tried "Paradox dBase Access Reader" using UTF-8 character set but the database is not readable. The database is very old and is created using…
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Why do I get "type mismatch" when I put a date value in SQL?

I am working on a search query function in Delphi 7 (working with a Paradox database) and I keep getting a type mismatch error when selecting between two dates. If I use the date type I get Project Project1.Exe raised exception class EDBEngineError…
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Cleaning up ODBC DSN in C# .NET

I am using C# and an OBDC DSN to connect to a Paradox database. I seem to be leaking memory if I open and close each connection. My code is basically: csb.Dsn = "DNSName"; OdbcConnection con = new…
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What is the .Net type equivalent to Time in Paradox Database

I'm accessing Paradox file by binary reading. But I have a question. I don't know what conversion should I to do from Time in Paradox Database: TimeSpan DateTime Or I should to convert to string
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Removing Specific Lines From Contents of a Memo field

How would I be able to use Delphi to remove data from a memo field that comes after a certain string, for example the data in the database I'm going through it displayed as such: ======= Old Data ========
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