In some countries undergraduate degrees are awarded either as pass degrees or as honours degrees, the latter denoted by the appearance of "(Hons)" after the degree abbreviation. An honours degree generally requires a higher academic standard than a pass degree, and in Singapore, New Zealand, an extra year of study which may involve independent research and the writing of a thesis. An honours degree is sometimes accepted in place of a Master's degree as prerequisite for Ph.D. study. In the University of Dublin, the equivalent of honours is known as moderatorship, abbreviated "(Mod)".
Honours and moderatorships are often divided into first, second upper, second lower, third and (sometimes) fourth classes.
Faculties
Originally, in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge all undergraduate degrees were in the Faculty of Arts, hence the degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA). Since the late 19th century, most universities in the English-speaking world have followed the practice of the University of London in dividing undergraduate degree subjects into the two broad categories of arts and sciences, awarding the degree of Australia and New Zealand, where the degree of BA is increasingly uncommon.
Some of these new degrees and their abbreviations include:
BDE's application program interface (API) provides direct C and C++ optimized access to the database engine, as well as BDE's built-in drivers for dBASE, Paradox, FoxPro, Access, and text databases.
BDE system is configured using the BDEAdministrator (BDEADMIN.EXE).
Included with BDE is Borland's Local SQL, a subset of ANSI-92 SQL enhanced to support Paradox and dBASE (standard) naming conventions for tables and fields (called "columns" in SQL).
The BDE was designed from the beginning to allow a single central copy to be shared by multiple users.
The disadvantage of this technique is that it leaves the BDE registry entries on the workstation pointing to the BDE on the local hard drive.
The advantages of installing the BDE on the file server and sharing it across all users are so great it is surprising that Borland does not recommend, or at least document, this option.
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