>It sounds that although Vfp is object oriented product, it can't be used to build an object database. Am I right?
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It depends on what you mean by using it to creaste an object database. VFP is a relational model database, it could be used as an object storage table, relying on fields in tables to represent properties of an object and embedded links to other objects in the object table. You can save and restore objects explicitly in structures in the .DBF with some code added to your classes to support storage and retrieval of objects, and anything really strange can make use of memo/general fields as BLOBs. It's not ObjectStore, and it doesn't have the datatypes built into most object languages for creation and storage of objects with permanence, but you can store object states in tables

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>>>Hi Craig
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>>>Could Vfp create object-database? In "The Object Database Handbook" which was written by Douglas K. Barry said "If you are using an object programming language and an ODBMS, it would be unwise to use ODBC because it would not allow you to take advantage of the transparency that many ODBMSs provide for object programming languages." Do I have another choice rather than ODBC? Which is ODBMS product? Could you give me some example, please?
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>>The only other choice that you would have is an OLE-DB provider for the ODBMS, but I don't think any currently exist.