I do not know of anything comparable that I would use.
I have lived in Hurst well over 10 years. I still work in downtown Dallas. That location used to be in my UT header.
>Is there anything else comparable that you *could* use?
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>Say, if my (weak) memory is correct, I believe Hurst is a new location for you though not far from your previous location.
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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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>>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.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA