Merlin’s Delphi Forge

If you are using a local database (i.e. dBase or Paradox) then you probably ale have the BDE setting “LOCAL SHARE” set to false, which does not save changes to databases after they are modified immediately. The changes are kept in memory and saved later. In other words - cached.
This usually helps speed up database [...]

For many reasons you may need the installed BDE (Borland Database Engine) version. One of them (the main one probably) is that BDE versions are not always compatible with each other. Therefore you may want to use different code/components at runtime.
Use the code below to determine what version of BDE is installed on the system. [...]