MySql and Delphi direct connection

Question

I am looking into a free solution to connect delphi with a mysql database but without using ODBC.Is there such a component ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

i have been looking and using for years many tools, free and paid.

1st free is weak or difficult, at least u need too much code to do simple tasks which can be done in one or two functions in paid tools.

Paid tools i have used Devart MyDAC and microOLAP for MySQL which are the top rated tools in this area. i used mydac for around 2 years, but lately i moved to MicroOLAP DAC for MySQL as a better alternative for many reasons

• microlap mydac is much smaller, much easier to maintain and install and to use, mydac is much bigger details and many of these details and properties give unclear errors when used in some wrong way. since microolap is smaller, it is almost error free, and easier to use.
• mydac has a unicode issue in TmyDump vcl component, which repeatly appear and fixed in next update and reappear in the next one, fixed in the next and so on. this bug creats a nonunicode backup file containing unicode data, which when restore with the fixed version will cause wrong unicode conversion and damage of data, MicroOLAP tool has no issue with that with its similar component and smaller amount of details.
• i believe simplicity is much better than complications, easier, and much bug free. that is main reasons for me to convert to DAC for MySQL from MicroOLAP.

that is my simple experiement with this important basic subject for any serious database busniness developer.

i tried also the new FireDAC, i highly discourage to use it, too much complications, difficult unicode handling, difficult to deploy.

Have luck.