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It's JVP < s >....


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You do love to make friends do you ? The fact is that anyone who behave like this is not worthy to take serious.
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Perhaps. But I suspect that more often than not, my advice is taken more seriously than yours...< s >...

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From my side (and I firmly believe, the majority of the UT here), believe you do not have the intention here to add anything to this discussion, but only to degrade people.
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Actually, the discussion between Jim Booth and I should serve as a model for how intelligent discussions should progress. From a technical perspective, that may have been one of the more in-depth discussions up here in quite some time
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>I know i'm not going to convince you, since I could never convince you that the DELETED() tag in general was a bad thing. You've never admitted that I was right on the subject, even now it is recognized and confirmed that I was right all along. I guess that you still index you tables on DELETED()....
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I don't use VFP as a data store. I have not done so for almost 2 years. Therefore, the whole Deleted() issue is irrelevant to me. FWIW, when I was using VFP data, Deleted() tags worked just fine for me. I do agree there are times when it can detract from performance. However, there were others before you that noted this issue.

Also, how long are you going to continue to trot out the Del() argument? Walter, your issue clearly is that you don't like to have a set of general rules. I think you confuse best-practices with absolutes. For sure, there are times when you need to break the rules. There is no better illustration than that of normalization.

>Oh... wait, you do not use the VFP database, right ?? I seem to recall that you do not use VFP for a lot of things. Hmmm, I still wonder what actually you do up here ? hmmm. Might it be trying to promote VB (Question which are the dead languages in VS 6.0 ???) with subjective and false arguments ?
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I use the VFP language. I don't use VFP data. I bet it has been a long time since I mentioned VB up here. In fact, I don't partcipate in the VFP v. VB threads anymore....


All that said, I think we know who is who now...< bg >...

Thanks..

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