I just spent a thrilling afternoon massaging the Northwind data that comes with VFP 8 for a course I'm teaching this fall. All I had to do was convert everything to Hungarian notation, replaced the integer keys with 36 char guids, get the table names to be all plurals ... ( after 20 years of this my 'favorite' bug is still not remembering if I have named something singular or plural <g>)
Still beats dummying up data, though. Examples just never seem as impressive with only four records in each table
>And it didn't. <g>
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>Actually, I used that handy database in courses when teaching how to get an auto-generating key. So it was actually useful in its useless state. :-)
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>>And besides, the client said "But that data will never ever ever change ..." <g>
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>>>>> It was also not updated to take advantage of newer features as they were added to VFP.<
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>>>>Or radical new cutting-edge concepts like the use of surrogate primary keys ;-)
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>>>That wasn't in the spec we got. <g>
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