>> Is this an easy way to manage using a local dbf backend versus easily >> upsizing to a non-dbf backend eventually, all with the click of a checkbox in the Advantage configuration utility? That's what it sounded like to me. Rick -- you commented....is that the way you interpreted it?<<
I have just started to play with it. I am not an expert in the database yet. But everything I have seen and read has me pretty impressed with the product. It allows you to retain the investment you have in DBF files. No need to write conversion code for upsizing to *any* backend database. If you migrate to the Advantage Database Server you can hide the DBFs (no need for users to have access to the folder anymore) so you now have secure files. Since all the access to the data is done by requesting the results from a server you get client/server benefits with respect to network traffic (as in no indexes to cache locally). This also reduces the corruption of indexes and DBFs close to zero since it is handled on one box and one set of processes. It sure demos easy. <g> You still have to change your application to be a client/server style (no direct table access), but since a lot of have been using local views for years all we have to do is change to a remote view and the app should be fairly easy to move over. Those that took the straight table and XBase route have a bit more work to do, but that is a trade off and not uncommon when moving to client/server. The killer thing I am getting out of this product is the ODBC driver is free and works with VFP 9 Database Containers. This is going to help out a lot of developers who are stuck at VFP 6 DBC levels and cannot take advantage of the DBC Events, and the new data types added to VFP over the last few releases. The Advantage Database Server is a price per seat business model which may turn some people off the backend database, but the costs of the licensing is likely cheaper than the cost of the upsizing code if you are not doing SQL Server and using the new Sedna upsizing wizard. I think if developers do a serious cost analysis they will see some interesting possibilities. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com _______________________________________________ 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 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.
