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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:17:56+00:00

When looking for which version of Delphi 2010 to buy, we found the following

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When looking for which version of Delphi 2010 to buy, we found the following limitation on the professional one:

Delphi 2010 Professional is designed
for developers building
high-performance desktop GUI and
touch-screen applications with (or
without) embedded and local database
persistence.

What does this really mean? Does this mean that we’ll only face this restriction if we choose to use the native vcl components for database access we’ll face this restriction.

And what if we choose to use ADO components instead of those? In this case, how can Delphi avoid us to access remote database servers? Did anyone here ever tried this?

Going even further: if we choose to use a database like Firebird, which is just one file, and used a network mapped drive. Could we be facing the same limitation?

Supposing we opt for ADO, what will be the main consequences?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Does this mean that we’ll only face
    this restriction if we choose to use
    the native vcl components for database
    access we’ll face this restriction.

    Yes. The professional version simply leaves out some of the driver & driver technology that natively supports certain databases. It still includes ADO support and there are plenty of third-party drivers that you can use to access other databases.

    Delphi 2010 does not include any technology to stop you from building applications that interact with remote databases aside from the fact that it does not include DB Express (its own database driver technology).

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