The Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group will meet next Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 7PM. Note the new location for this meeting:
MicroEndeavors, Inc., 8001 Lansdowne Avenue, Upper Darby, PA 19082
Directions: http://www.microendeavors.com/directions.htm

Speaker: John McLaughlin
A developer since 1999 I am experienced in a number of programming languages, and hold an MCDBA certification in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. I have worked with Visual FoxPro and Microsoft SQL Server since my first developer job and have spent a good deal of time integrating the data from both sources. Since December 2004 I have been employed by Dow Jones & Company as an Application Development Consultant for the Indexes department. My primary responsibilities invlove SQL server design and development as well as Visual FoxPro,Visual Basic .Net, and ASP.Net application development, and as you might guess integrating Visual FoxPro and SQL Server data.

Topic: SQL Server and VFP Tips and Tricks on Importing/Exporting SQL and Visual FoxPro data.
Discussion on using Microsoft SQL Server's native functionality to import Visual FoxPro tables as well as using Visual FoxPro to import data from Microsoft SQL Server. Topics include SQL functionality such as OPENROWSET,OPENDATASOURCE,OPENQUERY and DTS as well as a look at executing queries/stored procedures against SQL Server from a VFP program both in Synchronous and Asynchronous modes.

The meeting is free and open to all. Please spread the word.
Also, we're looking for speakers for upcoming meetings. We meet the second Wednesday of every month. If you're interested in speaking, send email to Bob Pierce (rpierce@smooth-on.com).

This month's raffles will include a one-year premier membership to the Universal Thread.