>>Is there anything else out there that you *could* use that is comparable for this type of work?
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>>>>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?
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>>>That's about the ONLY thing I'm using VFP for these days. Everything else I've been doing in SQL/VB COM & ASP.
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>>>Looks like my skills are about to become obsolete again...
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>>>-JT
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>I don't know of anything quite like VFP for down and dirty data manipulation and interactive programming. A lot of people are singing the Delphi praises but I've never used it (and probably never will).

I am working in a Delphi shop and they believe that VFP is the only way for data manipulation.