In 1988, dBASE IV added support for SQL. In 1994, dBASE 5 for Windows added objects and visual programming and provided connectivity to a variety of SQL databases using the Borland Database Engine.

Providing cross-database capability, it reads and writes natively to dBASE, Paradox, Access, Oracle, MS SQL Server and other databases. dBASE is an interpreted language that can also be compiled ...