George,

I think you're moving in the correct direction.

Let me ask you a question, also springing from a recent ..erhh.. "active" thread <g>. The one about the CDX size changes.

You don't suppose that the changes to the building of the leaf nodes in the CDX was purely by chance, do you? No, of course you don't. Then why? Well, ostensibly to make the CDXs more stable, which in and of itself isn't a bad deal. Yet... If you're going to nudge this little lady into the harsh spotlight of co-existence with SQL then shouldn't you clean out the proverbial closets first?

These things don't happen in a vacuumn, now do they.. < eg >


>The recent thread on the news from Essential Fox has lead me to some thoughts that I want to share. Part of these are based on history, part based on what I saw in the keynote video from the last DevCon. I’ll take the historical perspective first because it is fact.
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>Around 1993, Microsoft entered into an agreement with Ashton-Tate to make dBase IV the “natural” front end for dealing with SQL Server. Unfortunately, because of limitations within both products, this “vision” was never realized.
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>Shortly thereafter, Microsoft bought Fox Software.
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>Now, skipping ahead to more recent events, consider the following.
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>At DevCon, it was Calvin Hsia who demonstrated the auto-increment feature. I spent 17 years in business management; I know that you don’t assign your best to a minor task. It was Calvin, who was behind the implementation of Intellisense in VFP 7.0.
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>As soon as I heard about the implementation of the auto-increment column, I began to think about the possibilities.
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>What if auto-increment was the “tip of the iceberg”?
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>What if it was an indication that VFP was to become the “natural” interface for dealing with SQL Server?
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>What if the answer to the above was, “Yes”, and more importantly, what would this say about the future?
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>Now all of the above is pure speculation on my part. I don’t know anything that isn’t common knowledge in this regard. What I do know is, if this is the case, then the future of VFP is both bright and promising.