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Old Nov 1st, 2007, 9:13 AM   #3
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Re: about creating a database

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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon View Post
I don't know a thing about Delphi but in general you can create your own database using any programming language. The simplest database is just a text file that contains the fields that you want in some consistent format. For example *.csv files used by Excel could be considered a database.
True, but I want to take advantage of the database features in Delphi. And although it's simple in principle to create a database using a textfile, it still requires some (potentially time-consuming) work getting all the details right, and it's not very scalable.
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