I can say it, from personal experience. The tests we ran on tables from 500K to 2 mil records performed retrieval of data on the order of 10+ times faster than SQL server.
What is more, the SQL syntax for SQL 7/2000 is not as functional as that contained in VFP 6.0
For instance. Create a query from a table and retrieve all elements of that record, numeric, date, datetime, character, memo, etc, and SCATTER it to a single array in which the data from the record and the data in the array are exactly in the same format.
VPF will do it with its simple SELECT statement Into ARRAY myarray
try it with SQL server (or any other one for that matter)
>Since version SQL Server 7.0, it can no longer safely be said that VFP and Rushmore are faster than SQL.
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MSCE, MCSP, Microsoft Channel Partner
Relax, Boss. We will meet the deadline! What? You want to add MORE? What do you mean, Over Budget?
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