Description of Direct Oracle Access :
With these three components you access an Oracle database directly, skipping the Borland Database Engine only using (32 bits) SQL*Net. This gives you the following advantages:No distributing, installing and configuring the BDENo BDE overhead or tradeoffs: your queries will run up to five times fasterThe program executable size will be more than 100K smallerThe use of variants makes programming easy (null values, runtime type information)You can use PL/SQL blocks for server logic in your applicationEasy to use, the components are intelligent.