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09/06/1999 13:47:44
Bob Lucas
The WordWare Agency
Alberta, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
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Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00228025
Message ID:
00228050
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Very neat. Could you explain ADSL and how fast it is?

FYI - Rick Strahl did something similar at FoxTeach in Toronto and accessing data from his machine in I believe Hawaii. He was accessing VFP tables though. Similar performance, the initial connection was slow but data access after that was pretty good.

>FYI
>I just installed an ADSL modem at home and thought I would try some things out. I have WIN95 running on my PC and also SQL Server 7.0. So at work this morning I managed to create an ODBC connection to my remote, at home, SQL Server database using my IP address as the machine name.
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>In VFP I created a connection using the ODBC DSN and then created a few remote views against the tables (I used the Northwind database). Performance is excellent, once the connection is opened (a little slow, but with shared connections, subsequent selects are very snappy!)
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>Anyway, it puts a whole new light on Client/Server.
Colin Magee
Team Leader, Systems Development
Metroland Media Group Ltd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

cmagee@metroland.com

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