>>Also FWIW, a defining benefit of VFP used to be its auto-spanning to disk, meaning you could have resultsets that exceed utilized or even available memory in days when a growing .NET dataset could bring a machine to its knees. I was taunted on this point for years by a certain fellow in the UT forums. I never took it personally- just as well, because time went by and machines had more memory than VFP could utilize anyway. Then came devices that blurred the difference between dynamic memory and storage. Along the way, "web is best" hypotheses eliminated the concept of local datasets, though it's back now on devices unlikely to be stressed by any sensible dataset.
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>Taunted....if that's your word to describe it, then maybe you and Mike are kindred spirits in the revisionist history department.
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>I called you out - first, because you tried to assure what was left of the Fox world that YAG was a senior MS executive who was keeping auto-spanning alive. Borrowing from the newspaper theme, that one definitely earned 2-3 Pinocchios.
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>Second - given what Microsoft released just a few short years after those discussions, it was clear the auto-span was totally in the rear view mirror, period. They went the direction of Xvelocity/Vertipaq/columnstore indexes, first with PowerPivot in Excel in 2010, and then the incorporation into the database engine in SQL 2012 enterprise.
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>Bottom line....in the time period when you were talking about MS and senior executives and love of auto-spanning, Microsoft had already pulled everything they ever could out of Fox. And to be fair, they pulled out quite a bit in the 1990's that eventually served to help version of SQL server.
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>But hey, JR, keep believing that, if it helps you....just like it must help Mike to compare Walter's behavior to that of a psycho looking to do physical harm.

I am stating that constant bullying of someone that only states irrefutable demonstrable facts is BULLYING. Bullying causes harm. It is the same underlying behavior that led to me nearly having my hard blown off by bullies.

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>p.s. It wasn't "web is best" that killed the idea of local datasets.