>I have heard many praises of VFP as a development tool. However, (embarrassingly) it just occurred to me that it is an outstanding tool for prepping data (e.g. cleaning and converting and exporting for loading into Oracle as an example). I can't think of anything that compares.
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>Do y'all see VFP used much in this way?
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>Have y'all seen other comparable tools?

I certainly use VFP for this when massaging Oracle data. For massive amounts of data, I use VFP to create parameter and data text files for use by Oracle's SQL Loader utility.