Question: How do I tell the version number of my Borland Database Engine?
Answer: This can be found in the BDE Administrator Utility found in Control Panel. There is a trick, though. You cannot rely on the BDE Administrator's Help | About dialog box, which only displays the version of the Administrator.
To determine your current BDE version:
From your Windows Start menu, choose Settings | Control Panel.
When the Control Panel appears, start the BDE Administrator.
Select the Configuration tab and then choose Object | Version Information. When you do this, the BDE Version Information dialog appears, as shown in the following figure:
Your BDE version is displayed in the Version column for IDAPI32.DLL.
Please be aware that some of the support DLL's used for certain SQL Links and other connections do not have the same version numbers as the "core" IDAPI DLL's. This should be expected.
The latest version of BDE (5.1.1 as of this writing) can be downloaded from Borland's BDE Update pages.