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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00397596
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BTW, the reliable person that I know of with regards to C/S app particularly with SQL Server is no more than Larry Miller because he speaks out of real world programming experience and not just based on Theory. Sorry Larry M...

>>>>I just don't see it happening. If you need bigger, MS has a solution..go to SQL Server.
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>>>PMFJI. Going to SQL Server have these primary trade-offs e.g. speed, and ease of development. Why to limit the size anyway? BPOV, and it's not that the FOX team can't do it IMHO.
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>>Jess,
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>>It seems you haven't done SQL Server development. There is no perceivable speed difference between VFP and SQL Server 7. Development is not any more or less difficult using SQL Server for a data source if you know how. If you don't know how that is a different story altogether and it has nothing to do with speed or ease of development, it has to do with knowledge and experience.
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>Currently migrating our applications into SQL Server 7.0. Pure VFP to VFP database app has significant speed performance than VFP to SQL Server database. You can't use SEEK directly to SQL Server, you have to work with RecordSets not directly to table. We use both technologies: RV, SPT, SPs, and a little on ADO.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net

CHARISMA simply means: "Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you."
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