Ahhhhh - so it wasn't a size queen question:-).

Dell computers web services contractor (Hart Hanks Communications) still has some FPW2.6 files that (i think) support the catalog and order entry services. There are a lot of FPW back ends out there - but I think they're normalized and optimized and maintained with solid maintenance procedures.

If the app is an accounting app, typically, at year end or year end + 1 year, transaction records are purged and archived. Sometimes the UT has posts describing gig-a-byte DBFs, but I can't remember what they are used for. Being old-school <g>, thus - steadfastly worshipping at the alter of data/code economics, I am hard-pressed to understand why the design allowed for such big files.

If it's DBF size - then I would be interested in the app that manages those files, but would be curious as to why.

I should apply a little reason before I rant. Thanks for reminding me:-)

>Interesting perspective Terry. I took 'the biggest' to mean the largest number of records or the largest number or concurrent users.
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>>>Hi All, just a general question:
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>>>Does anybody know what systems that have been created with VFP are the bigest ones ???
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>>I saw what was claimed to be a "big" VFP app. Basically it was a bunch of procedure files whereby the developer copied and pasted sections of code, over and over [and over] again. Sometimes size is necessary. But lack of optimaization (sloppiness or inexperience) can make what is essentially a 30 thousand line program, become a 120,000 line program. Unneccessarily large apps do not help VFP's image - they're sluggish and hard to maintain (required those big teams we hear so much about:-). But - they do allow sloppy coders, who really don't like programming, who would [also] have difficulty getting a job based on their merits, keep their current position and eventually move up to management. When we see a FPW2.6 system [completely] recompiled in VFP, we know one of them sloppy/lazy/uncaring coders from 10 years ago managed to hang on and finally move into management. Doesn't anybody care about the clock anymore?:-) What is a size queen doing writing code?:-)