Hi Alan, I am working with a team developing an app that makes exactly what you describe. A warning system that can be configured to check for certain criteria at specific intervals with your connection strings in VFP , SqlServer or whatever database you want.
Of course the application can handle many different jobs (different sql statements) that can be scheduled to run independently at the requested time periods and to inform different users with various ways. You can be alerted with Email / SMS / netsend / our custom notifier (Argus Notifier) / Twitter / Windows Live etc. Moreover, the application can be configured to examine not only databases but any system. For example you can check a web service or a common web page or a directory even if a specific process is running in a remote machine. The best part is that you can write your own search or notification providers using any .NET language really easily. That's how we have implemented our own search and notification providers! -:) The system is in beta testing for the moment (actually we are writing documentation and preparing our site) but if you would like to have a working version let me know. Please check http://www.argus-soft.com/ Vassilis Aggelakos On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know any general-purpose solutions that could connect to VFP > or SQL Server data via OLEDB or whatever, and produce alerts based on > certain criteria that could be sent to recipients via SMS/Email/Desktop > pop-ups? > > TIA ... > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.

