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

Peter

The system is on a Windows NT server running Novell. Sounds strange, but that's the way they want to do it...I suppose that the real question is whether there is something else that can handle the amount of data that we have on a PC environment. The old system was a Sun Workstation running UNIX.

Regards

Chris