> Friends,

> I have existing Delphi 5e app using BDE 5.1 and MS/SQL 6.5. I am about to
> replace SQL6.5 with SQL7. I plan to leave the Delphi app as is and just
> replace SQL database at the server side. Will the existing Delphi 5 BDE5.1
> continue to work with SQL 7.

> The reason  I am doing this is for smooth transition one step at a time.
> Later on, I will convert all existing App from BDE to ADO.

> Thanks for your help,

> Toan

> > The reason  I am doing this is for smooth transition one step at a time.
> > Later on, I will convert all existing App from BDE to ADO.

> Seems the trendy thing to do, but if you have sound technical reasons for
> the conversion, it would be better to convert sooner rather than later, as
> you will need to QA a lot of code after conversion...

> Simple examples..

> BDE:  TQuery.ParamByName('@CustomerID').AsInteger := 123;
> ADO: TADOQuery.Parameters.ParamByName('CustomerID').Value := 123;

> BDE: TQuery.RequestLive := True;
> ADO: TADOQuery.CursorType := ctKeyset;