Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:59 AM, KAM.covad > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What we need is an easy migration to PostgreSQL from VFP. Unattended installation from CD and a replacement for INSERT INTO FROM NAME, GATHER, etc >> >> Then it would be easier to migrate to something like Python if necessary some day. >> > > If only it were that easy :) > > I worked on the migration of a large commercial web site, in > hand-coded VFP, from direct DBF manipulation to calling client-server > code. It required examining and recoding not just all the standard SQL > INSERT >
Right...me too recently with a "quick and dirty" app I wrote about 5 years ago. I had to retool for all of the USE/SEEK logic. Much retooling on reports to get subsets and then run existing queries rather than running against full tables when I knew I just needed to join some subsets. For my case, I've got VFP9 clientside hitting a web database, so I had to be efficient...I couldn't just grab everything to munge locally! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ 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.
