I agree about the insane pricing. If you want to use the Prof. version and still have DB-access then there exist some open source components like https://sour

I agree about the insane pricing. If you want to use the Prof. version and still have DB-access then there exist some open source components like https://sourceforge.net/projects/zeoslib/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/zeoslib/ OTOH my 20-year project is still trucking along using D2010 and Dbisam as the DB-layer...