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From
04/07/2003 16:35:57
Dorin Vasilescu
ALL Trans Romania
Arad, Romania
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00806833
Message ID:
00807082
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I second that.
And, for a start, you don't even need to pay, start with MSDE, MySQL, Postgres, Firebird,...

I hope that next week I will finish the port of an important application in our company to client-server and escape from "DBF hell" (nothing worst than a user which think that RESET is the best solution).

>Think twice.Why provide a option for support a bad thing that not must happend?
>
>The solution is do a stable engine, simply that. This things about indexes last forever, and no change our problems from old fox to new fox 8. Is for that reason that is best use a database like Sql Server o Interbase on any else, simply for stability.
>
>You best way is jump to other engine. Is not so hard and anyway you can still use fox code using remote views. If your aplication have a lot of problem because this, the best cost-effective solution and best-customer satisfaction is go away of use VFP database for main operations.
>
>In the way, we swithc a 1.5 year ago and never again a customer call us because lost data or a damage table.. this thing represent our 35% of support effort.
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