List of all ALIASES pointing to a SQL server

Problem/Question/Abstract:

For a little tool, I recently needed to get a list of all aliases which point to a SQL db. (I did not want to see those Paradox files).

Answer:

I came up with the following procedure, which I call like this:

GetAliases(ComboBox1.Items)

procedure GetAliases(const AList: TStrings);
var
  i: Integer;
  Desc: DBDesc;
  Buff: array[0..254] of char;
begin
  // list all BDE aliases
  Session.GetAliasNames(AList);
  for i := AList.Count - 1 downto 0 do
  begin
    StrPCopy(Buff, AList[i]);
    Check(DbiGetDatabaseDesc(Buff, @Desc));
    // no Paradox, please
    if StrPas(Desc.szDBType) = 'STANDARD' then
      AList.Delete(i)
  end
end;