Hi,

I got very disapointed and upset with what happened a few minutes latter I replied to Larry Miller (Message ID: 690164), telling him that the solution he presented me worked fine and solved my problem. Thanks again, Larry!

What happened? Well, I was talking to a fellow developer (I'm working in house of a client) that works with VFP (quite surprising) and was proudly telling him about what we could achieve with a VFP program using SPT to get all tables, indexes, columns and the like from an Oracle or SQL Server database, from what I just learned with Larry. I was very happy and was ready to start programming a simple utility to perform all those functions, that could help us a lot in our current work, I told him...

Then another fellow developer, that works in the same project as I, actually a Delphi developer (not quite surprising), heard what I was saying and called us close to his PC and showed us SQL Explorer (that comes bundled with Delphi). He could browse and see all properties of the available databases, their tables, indexes, columns etc... Really a must, that made me feel jealous and stupid at the same time!

I was proud of what I could do with VFP, and what he showed me (us) is that Delphi developers (among many other things) don't need to waste their time with that, because they have available to use many goods that we, VFP developers, don't have. I mean many *essential goods*, not fancy stuff, and all that comes along and integrated with their tool, not add ons that must be found elsewhere and, eventually, purchased.

I really can't (under)stand the VFP team putting all their coins in web development, web services, XML etc, extending the product in just a direction, and not also investing in *really* productive stuff like this one (IMHO) I just told about. Think they should understand that the world is not all about web development and MS SQL Server, and many developers (like me in this case) don't have access to the design environment of SQL Server, Oracle etc, when doing their work. A "SQL Explorer", like many other goods, should be very welcome.

Pardom me to fill your ears (eyes) with my complain, but I really felt jealous and stupid with that. Now I'm just angry... maybe stupid, because of the words I wrote here < sigh >

Sorry folks.

Fernando

PS. A few days ago I posted the message "The announcement I'd like to see..." (Message ID: 687225). What a coincidence.