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VFP9 2GB per database???
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From
17/03/2005 07:33:26
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
17/03/2005 07:19:30
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00996696
Message ID:
00996701
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11
>Hey all
>
>While all the VFP9 news coverage is great, isn't it inaccurate to say ...
>
>"Microsoft has no plans to support 64-bit technology in Visual FoxPro or go beyond the 2 GB database size limit in the FoxPro data engine."
>
>That's from this magazine http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6606.
>
>I thought it was 2GB per table. "2GB per database" makes VFP seem very weak. I suspect we'll now hear a round of conspiracy theories ;)

Unfortunately, there has always been confusion between "database" and "table". I think this comes from the fact that DBF stands for "database file", and perhaps some entries in the old FoxPro help file. Plus the fact that FoxPro didn't really have much of a concept of a "database".
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