>Hi all
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>I've recently been asked a question regarding the performance of VFP versus other software. We are processing about 300,000 transactions of data each month (approx 80mb) on a dual Pentium III processor with a SCSI hard drive and about 500mb of RAM.
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>I prefer to use VFP6 as I believe that (in terms of PC applications) it is probably the quickest around - but would like to find out what else there is, and how VFP6 compares.


Are you on a network? You don't say so.

Rick Strahl www.west-wind.com reports that the VFP data engine is about twice as fast as SQL Server. He went to SQL Server at the Surplus Direct site for greater reliability.

Peter Robinson