Carl,
Yep, that's the idea. I'd envisaged leaving the VFP application alone then
gradually moving it over to Dabo. 

However, I think that I'll simply convert the VFP application to MySQL from
native tables and continue from there with Dabo. The conversion should only
take me a day - and it's been something I wanted to do a couple of years ago
when I first wrote it.

Dave

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Sent: 11 December 2007 17:35
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Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Dabo lift-off or crash and burn!

Paul McNett wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>>>> 5. Has anyone successfully managed to access VFP data (read and write)
using
>>>> anything other than the PHP ADODB software
>>>>
>>>> http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/adodb-py-docs.htm
>>>>
>>>> in addition to the mxODBC software
>>>>
>>>> http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/
>>>>
>>> if you need odbc support I would also try ceODBC package.
>> I agree. I am using http://ceodbc.sourceforge.net with c-tree odbc
drivers.  the 
>> c-tree driver has a bug, and the ceodbc author (Anthony Tuininga) built
in a 
>> work around in under a day.  He also gave me some tips to make my code
better.
>> Did you know you could do:
>>
>> connection = connect...
>> srcCur = connection.cursor()
>> srcCur.execute('bla bla bla')
>>
>> for row in srcCur:
>>      rowNo = srcCur.rowcount
>>
>> I was doing: for rowNo, row in enumerate(srcCur.fetchall())
>>
>> He is also the author of the Oracle db module.  guessing that counts for
something.
>>
>> However, I would put dbf access aside and look at changing the VFP app
from dbf 
>> to postgresql or mysql.  Although a dabo odbc module would more
productive for 
>> the rest of the world.  tough call.
> 
> I think where you want to use DBF, you should use sqlite, especially if 
> it is single-user. For everything else, you should use PostgreSQL, 
> MySQL, or Firebird.

I am assuming he wants to run the 2 systems in parallel.  Is this correct?

Carl K


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