On Sat, December 28, 2013 2:19 am, AndyHC wrote: > OK I skimped on my comment, I agree that local views (and designing your > app to minimise network traffic) can help a lot. I was really talking about > old style foxpro 'USEing' dbf's. Using/ changing to local views also > makes it /comparativ//ely/ easy to move to remote views later (though null > values, varchars and a few other things are waiting to bite your ass!). My > own rule of thumb was to consider going to dbms when user numbers grew to > around 30 (or 10 who complained about slow speeds!)
Making my apps n-tier (UI/BizObj/DataObj) has paid many dividends over the years for ease of maintenance and upgrade when necessary. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
