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>>No, that's Gary DeWitt. Gary Wynne is in England.
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>>Sorry. Of course. I remember Gary doing excellent presentations on using MSDE instead of DBFs to keep a single code base that would scale. First glimmerings of writing all my stuff against a SQL backend - didn't pick up on it right away but definitely had me going in the right direction 5 or 6 years ago.>
>Yes, he was definitely one of the earliest promoters of using MSDE, back in the late 90's ... and now it's common practice to write against a SQL back-end.
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>~~Bonnie
And a prophet before his time. SQL Express is a whole lot friendlier than MSDE, of course, and SQL just keeps getting better, but Gary's approach really stuck in my mind (and was reinforced later by Duffy) and when I finally acted on it I found a whole world of added benefits in my VFP apps (which were fortunately supported by great stuff Mike and Toni did in VFE) and now those same clients find they can point VFE or .NET at the same data and are very very pleased.
Tell him I said "Thanks" <s>
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