>>it's easier to treat every update as an insert, and just keep a history of who's done what when, and what was there before.
Easier? This is just a patch to eventually fix problems by hand when they appear, PROVIDED someone finds it, not really a method to PREVENT problems from happening. >>DB's are a lot faster than Clipper now, and can store alot more too. Hmmm Faster? DB are running on PC 1000 times faster than in the 80's, this makes a big diffference. About 7 years ago, I wrote an interpreter for a script language ColdFusion like, but based on the Clipper syntax instead of SQL, and believe it or not, it was FASTER than ColdFusion! ;-) And it was not written in C nor in Java, but 100% in Clipper! >>Yech. Clipper. What a tank. Of course, it is completely medieval now, but in its own time it really was a great product. And at least it DID HAVE record and table lock facilities, which CF and SQL do not have! ;-) -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252408 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
