>Hey all
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>While all the VFP9 news coverage is great, isn't it inaccurate to say ...
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>"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."
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>That's from this magazine
http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6606.
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>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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