Bill Arnold wrote: >>> - RDBMS. When the day comes that RDBMS's are passé, replaced with >>> something so good that relational doesn't make sense >> anymore, then I >>> would be inclined to agree the genre is dead. >> VFP doesn't even compare with other RDBMS's in common use >> today. Yes, sometimes the speed is comparible, but the >> featureset lags far behind Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL(free >> versions exist of MySQL and MSSQL; possibly Oracle, but I'm >> not as familiar). > > > VFP was never designed to function as a database server, so I don't > consider that a fair comparison. For our market, small business and > niches within large companies, the power of VFP on LANS is just fine, > without our having to resort to high-end ($) products. >
Why should you choose? I usually connect to database in MSSQLServer through ODBC and have no trouble at all. I can tap the full power of the servers you cite. But I can still combine, re-order, and do whatever I want with the result sets the server returns thanks to VFP. What's more, I can easily combine result set's from two different servers (in my case SQLServer and Progress) in any way I deem necessary by just writing another SELECT statement. Now if you can mention any other tool that allows me to do that.... > > I've been thinking about Spanish speaking countries (dialect difference > aside), and what a huge market that is for our products and tools (just > need good English->Spanish translators). > Ehemmm! If the money is right...... ;c) > >>> And that's just where the genre stands today. Imagine it being even >>> better? >> It's dying. xbase is a file-based RDBMS. The years of >> file-based RDBMS's ruling supreme are far behind us. We're in >> the time of server-based RDBMS's. There's no 'time of', we are not hair stylers or clothes designer's. We have a job to do, a problem to solve in the fastest and most reliable way we can find. With VFP I can address the best of 'file-based' solutions and at the same time get the full power of 'server-based' RDBMS. And if I need a stand alone application I can have that too. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
