>>>Really?? Half? Where did this little tidbit come from?
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>>The mass world wide survey we did last year. The UT survey from earlier this year shows the same results, see http://www.levelextreme.com/VisualFoxPro/Community2003.asp.
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>I hope your mass survey had a broader reach. I'd hardly call 176 respondents definitive. I'm not baiting you here, Ken, it just struck me oddly. And viewing the UT's data is far from convincing.

Jim;

Disclaimer:

The following scientific approach using higher mathematical principles is not meant to upset anyone. I hope someone gets a chuckle out of it.

I have not seen the World Wide results that Ken mentioned but the UT results are truly skewed. What does the information portray? What percentage of VFP developers (who responded to the survey) have ever used a specific data access strategy? Once? Twice? Daily?

The “MSDE/SQL Server (or another engine) trough ODBC” 176 users 51.16% and “MSDE/SQL Server (or another engine) trough ADO” 60 users 17.44% entries are of importance.

By the way change the spelling of trough to through unless we are talking about a ditch.

As for the phrase “or another engine”, I do not take that to mean only SQL server. We also have Oracle, Sybase and other back ends as well as SQL Server.

We have missing data but consider this. Ken has stated that 50% of VFP developers use SQL Server. Now we can determine how many VFP developers there are and how many copies of VFP have been sold based on the data “What Visual FoxPro/FoxPro version(s) do you use daily”? 344 + x = VFP total. Now how to solve for x?

Am I using extrapolation or marketing concepts? By the way my college physics/differential calculus professor could actually convert apples into oranges. Mathematically of course! Perhaps the professor should have been in marketing? I think the professor could solve for x! :)

Tom