One of the biggest new RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo database features is support for MariaDB open-source relational database. MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source SQL databases. It is a fork from MySQL database, after it has been acquired by Oracle, the original creators of MySQL, started to work on MariaDB, which is highly compatible, some say 95%, with MySQL. Consequently you will not find a new "MariaDB" node in RAD Studio "Data Explorer", but existing FireDAC MySQL driver has been rework...

On Wednesday, March 22nd, 11am CET, I have presented one hour, demo-oriented, developer webinar about FireDAC. FireDAC is the best database access library available in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio! During the presentation the focus was on new and improved FireDAC features in upcoming RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo release. Different database access framework libraries available in RAD Studio were discussed, working with Data Explorer, configuring database connection and working...