Delphi in Depth: FireDAC by Cary Jensen

Cary Jensen, best-selling, award-winning author of over twenty-five software books, just published a book on Delphi FireDAC.

Accompanying source code is available online.

• Learn how to connect to a wide variety of databases
• Optimize your connection configurations
• Explore the world of indexes, searches, and filters
• Discover the power of persisted datasets
• Create flexible queries using macros and FireDAC scalar functions
• Achieve blazing performance with Array DML
• Master the art of cached updates
• Add sophisticated features using Local SQL

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Overview of FireDAC
• Chapter 2: Connecting to Data
• Chapter 3: Configuring FireDAC
• Chapter 4: Basic Data Access
• Chapter 5: More Data Access
• Chapter 6: Navigating and Editing Data
• Chapter 7: Creating Indexes
• Chapter 8: Searching Data
• Chapter 9: Filtering Data
• Chapter 10: Creating and Using Virtual Fields
• Chapter 11: Persisting Data
• Chapter 12: Understanding FDMemTables
• Chapter 13: More FDMemTables: Cloned Cursors and Nested DataSets
• Chapter 14: The SQL Command Preprocessor
• Chapter 15: Array DML
• Chapter 16: Using Cached Updates
• Chapter 17: Understanding Local SQL
• Appendix A: Code Download, Database Preparation, and Errata
• Index

Cary Jensen is Chief Technology Officer of Jensen Data Systems, Inc., a Texas-based company that specializes in Internet and database development training and consulting, and winner of two Delphi Informant Magazine Readers Choice Awards for Best Training.

Cary is an award-winning, best-selling author of over 25 books. His latest books are:Delphi in Depth: FireDAC and Delphi in Depth: ClientDataSets, 2nd Edition.

Cary also wrote a reference on ADS, Advantage Database Server: A Developer’s Guide, 2nd Edition(Amazone, 2010). Other books include: Delphi in Depth: ClientDataSets, Building Kylix Applications (McGraw-Hill), JBuilder Essentials (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), Delphi In Depth (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), Oracle JDeveloper (Oracle Press), and Programming Paradox 5 for Windows. (Sybex). He is currently working on his twenty-third book.

Cary is an author and speaker for the Delphi Developer Days 2001-present seminar and workshop tours in the United States and Europe, and was the author and speaker for the Advantage Developer Days seminars. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops, and seminars throughout much of the world, he is widely regarded for his self-effacing humor and practical approaches to complex issues. Cary has a Ph.D. from Rice University in Engineering Psychology, specializing in human-computer interaction.