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SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components

SQL-based Access to SharePoint Excel Services through FireDAC

The fastest and easiest way to connect Delphi and C++ Builder Apps with live SharePoint Excel Services data.


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The SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Component enables user to easily connect to SharePoint Excel Services data from Delphi & C++ Builder applications. Rapidly create and deploy powerful Delphi & C++Builder Apps that integrate with live Excel Spreadsheet content hosted on SharePoint server!

Features

  • Access SharePoint Excel Services data either as an entire worksheet or from discrete ranges of data within a worksheet
  • Represent discrete blocks of data as tables through automatic detection or by manually specifying ranges of data
  • Optionally specify if the first row of data should be used for field names
  • Compatible with SharePoint 2013 and 2016, Excel 2007+
  • Powerful metadata querying enables SQL-like access to non-database sources
  • Push down query optimization pushes SQL operations down to the server whenever possible, increasing performance
  • Client-side query execution engine, supports SQL-92 operations that are not available server-side
  • Connect to live SharePoint Excel Services data, for real-time data access
  • Full support for data aggregation and complex JOINs in SQL queries
  • Secure connectivity through modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, ECC, etc.

Specifications

  • Native FireDAC Components for SharePoint Excel Services seamlessly integrate with RAD Studio
  • Full Unicode support for data, parameter, & metadata
  • Support for 32-bit & 64-bit operating systems
  • Requires Delphi, C++ Builder, or RAD Studio 10.2 Professional or higher


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Where can I use the SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components?

FireDAC Access to SharePoint Excel Services

Full-featured & consistent SQL access to any supported data source through FireDAC


  • Straightforward RAD Studio Integration

    Feature-rich high-performance Data Access Components that extend Delphi & C++ Builder Apps with SaaS, NoSQL, & Big Data connectivity.

  • Pure FireDAC Components

    Based on FireDAC Universal Data Access for developing applications for multiple devices, connected to enterprise databases.

  • Replication and Caching

    Our replication and caching commands make it easy to copy data to local and cloud data store as Oracle, SQL Server, Google Cloud SQL, etc. The replication commands include many features that allow for intelligent incremental updates to cached data.

  • String, Data, Numeric SQL Functions

    The driver includes a library of 50 plus functions that can manipulate column values into the desired result. Popular examples include Regex, JSON, and XML processing functions.

  • Developer Friendly

    Full Design-time support for data operations directly directly from RAD Studio. Work with live data directly from the IDE Data Explorer and FireDAC explorer.

  • Collaborative Query Processing

    Our drivers enhance the data source's capabilities by additional client side processing, when needed, to enable analytic summaries of data such as SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN, etc.

  • Easily Customizable & Configurable

    The data model exposed by our FireDAC Components can easily be customized to add or remove tables/columns, change data types, etc. without requiring a new build. These customizations are supported at runtime using human-readable schema files that are easy to edit.

  • Enterprise-class Secure Connectivity

    Includes standard Enterprise-class security features such as TLS/SSL data encryption for all client-server communications.

Standard FireDAC Access to SharePoint Excel Services

The SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components offers the most natural way to access SharePoint Excel Services data from any Delphi or C++ Builder application. Simply use SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components objects to connect and access data just as you would access any traditional database. You will be able to use the SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components through RAD Studio, in code through familiar classes, and in data controls like TDBGrid, TDBCtrlGrid, etc.

The CData FireDAC Components for SharePoint Excel Services hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Working with the FireDAC Components, etc.

The SharePoint Excel Services FireDAC Components has the same architecture as the native Delphi & C++ Builder FireDAC Components for SQL Server and can be accessed the same way.

For example:

FDConnection1.Name := 'SharePoint Excel ServicesConnection';
FDConnection1.DriverName := 'CData.Fire.SharePoint Excel Services';
with FDConnection1.Params as    
	TFDPhysCDataSharePoint Excel ServicesConnectionDefParams do begin
	...
end;
FDConnection1.Connected := true;
FDQuery1.Active := true;
FDQuery1.Open('select * from ExcelSheet where id = ''...''');
...


FireDAC Components Performance

With traditional approaches to remote access, performance bottlenecks can spell disaster for applications. Regardless if an application is created for internal use, a commercial project, web, or mobile application, slow performance can rapidly lead to project failure. Accessing data from any remote source has the potential to create these problems. Common issues include:

  1. Network Connections - Slow network connections and latency issues are common in mobile applications.
  2. Service Delays - Delays due to service interruptions, resulting in server hardware or software updates.
  3. Large Data - Intentional or unintentional requests for large amounts of data.
  4. Disconnects - Complete loss of network connectivity.

The CData FireDAC Components for SharePoint Excel Services solves these issues by supporting powerful smart caching technology that can greatly improve the performance and dramatically reduce application bottlenecks.

Smart Caching

Smart caching is a configurable option that works by storing queried data into a local database. Enabling smart caching creates a persistent local cache database that contains a replica of data retrieved from the remote source. The cache database is small, lightweight, blazing-fast, and it can be shared by multiple connections as persistent storage.

Caching with our FireDAC Componentss is highly configurable, including options for:

  • Auto Cache - Maintain an automatic local cache of data on all requests. The provider will automatically load data into the cache database each time you execute a SELECT query. Each row returned by the query will be inserted or updated as necessary into the corresponding table in the cache database.
  • Explicit Cache - Cache only on demand. Developers decide exactly what data gets stored in the cache and when it is updated. Explicit caching provides full control over the cache contents by using explicit execution of CACHE statements.
  • No Cache - All requests access only live data and no local cache file is created.

This powerful caching functionality increases application performance and allows applications to disconnect and continue limited functioning without writing code for additional local storage and/or data serialization/deserialization.

More information about FireDAC Components caching and best caching practices is available in the included help files.