However, the Locate and Lookup functions are not influenced by this because the date conversion is not done by RTL routines and therefore is out of the hands of Inprise. However, working together with Delphi will work, since that development environment support the same underlying structure. There is a solution called IDL2PAS, but that tool does not cover all IDL constructs and does not preprocess the IDL files. Client data set enhancements Client data sets now have more possibilities for filtering, support maintained aggregates, allow object relational fields and make it easier to support flat file database. TDataSetProvider provides conflict resolution for datasets.
Nested tables provide master-detail relationships between tables.
Besides all that it is easier to pass parameters to servers and save custom information in data packets. Now it is possible to modify your data model while building forms or data modules. Besides that, BDE and data access components support new versions of databases, for example Access'97 and Oracle8. What's gone is the Visual Query Builder. It has been replaced by SQL Builder.