On Nov 28, 2007 1:46 AM, L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Help the help, help our help!
Hello, Thank you guys for starting to write documentation about sqldb and database access in general ! It's painful to rely on those few examples and using the code-completion feature of Lazarus for guessing the methods each time when needing to work with databases ... Which is the right place for discussing about the new sqldb guide ? Since I'm a sqldb beginner I'm not sure how much documentation text can I contribute with. But at least i can come up with ideas since I know what kind of information would I expect to find in a "Working with databases" guide. For instance : - I'd move the "Step-by-step" section before the box about FCL-DB , or even in a separate page because it seems to contain information for people who want to add connectivity for new database vendors . So it's not information for the typical developer. - I think that the guide should contain easily identifiable sub-sections : "Connecting to a database" (with links to another page that presents the specifics for connecting to the various db engines) , "Reading the contents of a table" , "Executing SQL commands" , "Using parameters" , "Calling a stored procedure" , "Getting metadata information from the database" , etc. A long, complete tutorial is hard to follow if it doesn't have sub-sections . - The guide should avoid ending up like this one : http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial which contains 6 tutorials , each having its own, unique structure. Some tutorials are verbose, others are shorter . Creating a connection is different for each database type, but afterwards the handling of the data is supposed to be the same regardless of the database being used. The mentioned wiki page fails to present the common elements involved in working with databases. Cheers, Adrian Maier _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
