Databases in Lazarus

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Aim

This page aims to provide a general overview of using databases in Lazaraus, and to provide a home from which other database pages can be linked

Datasets

Database use in Lazarus (or FreePascal) is fundamentally based on the TDataset class. This represents a table or query to your application. However, like many other such fundamental classes, you don't use the TDataset class it self, you use a descendant of it. There are many of these. They provide access to different kinds of databases, such as local dbase or text files, or back-end databases such as Postgres, Firebird, MySQl and so forth. Some