On 10/16/2012 7:06 PM, M Jarvis wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
Here's what might be a crazy idea...
Instead of using a local Windows or Linux box as a file server for DBF
files...
What if someone were to set up a Windows share drive from a Cloud
The right tool for the job.... Are you married to the idea of using DBF's ?
Unless I'm missing something this sounds like a perfect scenario for
client/server and backends like MS SQL Server, postgreSQL and/or
mySQL....
The classic 'reduced record set theory' tosses indexes out the window
in the first place...
Or am I just too late afternoon punchy to see what is really going on here?
I'm with Matt. Might as well connect to a RDBMS like MySQL over the
web. Bob Lee (1amsoftware--what ever happened to Bob??) demonstrated
this at WhilFest back in 2003 I believe. I loved it. Been using it for
some clients since 2004 to date. However, as Christof pointed out, you
don't have tight security unless you use a VPN of sorts.
--
Mike Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
President, Chief Software Architect
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com
http://fabmate.com
http://twitter.com/mbabcock16
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