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> "you'll need to handle differently depending on backend."
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>Agreed, but only in the data tier. Worst case is a separate handler for each platform, better solution would be a multi-platform data manager class (which I've toyed around with but haven't implemented since I don't have an immediate need).
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A multi-platform data manager class is extremely difficult. We have a user group member who tried it for his commercial application and gave up. He decided to support DBFs and SQL Server only.