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From
08/05/2009 10:28:21
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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08/05/2009 09:35:59
Mike Sue-Ping
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01397536
Message ID:
01398617
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99
How often do you have to repair them?

>I wrote a POS for a "serious company" that put their "critical business data in DBFs". It's been working great for them for over two years now.
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>>>>Tell me it handles data as well and as easily as VFP.
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>>>VFP handles DBFs/DBCs much better. SQL server - I definitely prefer .NET
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>>You beat me to it. And what serious company still wants to put their critical business data in DBFs?
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>>I have been using SQL Server as an application developer for years now but in my new gig we are using it far more extensively than I have before. EVERYTHING is done in stored procedures (or triggers or constraints) I will probably be ramping up for a bit with scripts -- shhh, don't tell the client ;-) -- but at the end of this project I will be much stronger in SQL Server than I am now.
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>>Here is today's local color. On the way back to the hotel after work I decided to check out some local radio stations. The rental car has Sirius and I had been listening to that. So I switch to FM and discover all six presets are on country stations, LOL. Gotta love it.
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>>Much nicer was being taken out to lunch by the account manager from the placement agency. We went to a first rate Cajun place. I love Cajun food and it is not very common around Chicago. I may be practically living on the stuff while I am down here.
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>>Back home for the weekend tomorrow night. It's been a terrific first week.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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