What version of Delphi do you have? Most of the earlier ones shipped with BDE support and not much more, but as of D6 Enterprise Edition you have a plethora of methods available to access the data ...

Phil Mentesana, chief technology officer at Delphi Capital Management, knew that backing up critical data to tapes and schlepping them offsite for safe storage wasn't exactly a smart plan.

How Phil Mentesana, chief technology officer at Delphi Capital Management, replaced the company’s clunky, tape-based data backup process with online storage solutions.