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Delphi is a database system from Borland Inc., which comes together with an integrated development environment. It uses Object Pascal as development language. Version 3.0 is designed to work with the 32 bit operating systems Windows 95 and Windows NT from MicroSoft. This version is the successor of the 16 bit Delphi 2 system. ``Delphi 3 Datenbankentwicklung'' is one of two books of the author on Delphi. Both of them have been published in 1997 by the Franzis publishing house. Each of them contains about 500 pages and examines this database system from quite different points of view. The second book is entitled ``Delphi 3 Lösungen'' and deals with the programming interfaces between Delphi and the MicroSoft Windows operating systems. To each of the two books there belongs a CD-ROM which contains the Delphi sources of the examples of the books together with some texts and some tools. The book ``Delphi 3 Datenbankentwicklung'' is addressed to developers of databases. The author presents the basic ideas of the relational data model and describes the design processes which lead to a database. He develops an extensive example and completely implements it with help of the Delphi development environment. The connection to MicroSoft Word for Delphi report generation, the usage of SQL (Structured Query Language) as user language and Delphi configured as a client/server system complete this comprehensive text. The author states that his book neither is thought to be a Delphi tutorial nor a compensation for studying the system manuals. Readers should have profound knowledge of Delphi, acquired best by using the system in practice. With these qualification this orderly written and designed book can be read by Delphi database developers with profit.