- Very Basic Database Application in Delphi - Most Basic Editing
Database in Delphi - Manipulating Database Record with Codes -
Master Detail Datasets Beside plain simple data, such as strings
and numbers, in most (if not all) modern database we usually can
also store digital values of nearly unlimited size. We can use
this for example to store images, text files, executables, and
binary libraries. This kind of values usually called BLOB, short
for binary large object. Fields to store these values also
refered as blob fields. See this wikipedia page for more
information about BLOB. The following database is known to
support blob fields (note: the list covers only a very small
fraction of database supporting blob fields). - MS SQL Server -
MS Access Handling BLOB value in Delphi datasets There is no
primitive data type in Delphi directly available to handle BLOB
value. Therefore we have to settle with handling BLOB as stream.
TBlobStream is a descendant of TStream that was defined to
handle BLOB values as stre