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Enhancing Limit of DBF tables Over 2GB
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02/04/2013 08:05:17
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01569690
Message ID:
01569717
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96
>>Is there any simple way to enhance the Limit of VFP DBF table beyond 2 GB Capacity ?
>
>Follow a few round rules, and this will not be any problem for a normal size application.

Depends on what you consider 'normal' size.

At my day job we have dozens of applications that have databases way above that. All are on SQL Server.

When I was doing FP and VFP development I had applications where I had to split databases as far back as the early '90s. The resulting complexity and speed penalties made the jump to SQL databases mandatory as soon as it was practical.

>
>1. Never use general fields. NEVER!!!
>2. Never store pictures in tables, only the name of the picture file, with or without path
>3. Normalize the tables, don't add fields which are seldom used.
>4. Reuse deleted records
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