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A new development snapshot of IDE Fix Pack for 10.3 Rio is available. The Win64 (DCC64) and Android (DCCAARM) compiler patches should now work as excepted. Changes: Added: Support for Delphi 10.3 Rio Added: Fix for TStringList.IndexOfName bug (RSP-21633) Added: Fix for access violoation in the Welcomepage JScript9.dll binding Added: TCustomListBox.ResetContent is skipped if the handle isn't created yet Added: DFM Streaming optimizations Added: FillChar uses Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB cpu feature if available for large sizes. Added: Enabled CPU LOCK string assignment optimization for local variables Added: -Oe (experimental optimizations) and -x-cgo compiler option extension (Remove of some unneccessary push/pop operations) Added: Expression Evaluator allows array access to pointers even if the type wasn't declared with {$POINTERMATH ON} Added: New compiler option extensions: -x--compileonly, -x--reslist, -x--depfile, -x--unitstats Added: More performance optimization for the DCC64 compiler Added: TStringBuilder.SetLength optimization [RSP-19178] Added: TStrings.GetDelimitedText optimization Fixed: Packages with duplicate units may not have caused a fatal compiler error. IDEFixPackD103Reg64.7z fastdccD103vDev.7z

I am a total novice to databases, I would appreciate any pointers you could give. I am developing a back-end server for an app/game that requires storing user accounts with a few details about each user: 1. Name 2. Reputation 3. Score 4. Connection to a list of content (images+metadata) submitted by the user And since the users are submitting content (images), I need to store this content (or path to the content) with some metadata: 1. Likes 2. Effect flags The database will be hosted on a windows server 2008 machine I'm administrating using remote desktop. It will run on the same hardware as the REST server I'm currently writing. What is the quickest/cheapest route to learn how bring up a database so I can quickly and reliably store and manipulate the data from within Delphi (v10.2 Tokyo)?

TDirectory.GetFiles/GetDirectories/GetFileSystemEntries have overloads taking a TFilterPredicate. You can provide your own accept function with that. The following example lists all dll and exe files from the given folder in one go. files := TDirectory.GetFiles('C:\Temp\', function(const Path: string; const SearchRec: TSearchRec): Boolean begin Result := TPath.MatchesPattern(SearchRec.Name, '*.exe') or TPath.MatchesPattern(SearchRec.Name, '*.dll'); end);