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Table 12.1. continued
Term Description
TDataset The C++Builder class that provides access to database tables and
table-like query result sets. Because the TTable, TQuery, and
TStoredProc components indirectly descend from the TDataset
class, you’ll often see me refer to them collectively as TDatasets.
TTable The C++Builder component that provides access to database
tables. You use TTable’s TableName property to reference the
actual table that you want to access in your database.
TQuery The C++Builder component that allows you to construct,
execute, and process your own SQL queries.
TStoredProc The C++Builder component that allows you to run compiled
SQL procedures that reside on a database server (also known as
stored procedures).
Data-aware control A visual (visible at runtime) component that uses the data access
provided by your app’s data access controls to allow the user to
see and modify data in a database. Data-aware controls reside
on the Data Controls page in C++Builder’s Component Palette.
For the most part, you can think of them as “data smart”
versions of the controls on the Palette’s Standard page. TDBGrid,
TDBNavigator, and TDBEdit are examples of data-aware controls.
TDatasource The C++Builder component that facilitates linking TDatasets
with data-aware controls. Data-aware components reference
TDatasource components that, in turn, reference TDataset
controls.
TField The C++Builder class that provides access to fields in a database
table. C++Builder creates TField descendants such as
TStringField and TIntegerField when you use the Fields
Editor to add field components to a form. TField components
that have been added to a form are owned by the form, not by
their associated Tdataset.
An Overview of the Architecture
C++Builder applications communicate with local and remote databases using the Borland
Database Engine. In the case of local formats such as Paradox and dBase tables, the BDE
makes use of its own, built-in, local DBMS drivers. In the case of remote formats like Oracle