>>I am developing an application if VFP where I enter an Employee ID. I want to verify that this is a valid employee in a Delphi database and pull the name,
>>payrate and several other fields into memory from this Delphi database to then use in my VFP application. I hear all these buzz words like ODBC, etc. I just
>>need to know if there is a way to access this data and if so, how's it done.
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Repond here or to my email at
>>ssc@worldnet.att.net
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>>Thanks,
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>Brad,
>AFAIK, there is no Delphi database. Delphi is a developer tool that has functionality built into it to connect to other databases. If I'm right, what is the actual back-end? If I'm wrong, thanks for the new info.

In Delphi 6 there is something called "Desktop Database version 7.0". It looks like it will open .dbf, .sql, and .qbe files.
".....Database Desktop lets you create, view, sort, modify, and query data tables in a variety of Paradox, dBASE, and SQL formats.
Edit|Paste Link lets you create live links to data in other applications with DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)....."
So it comes with a database tool but no real database of it's own. Basicly for this to work for the guy we need to know what type of database it's talking too.