On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:34:43 -0400, Bernard Lis wrote: >Will 7.0 ignore double quotes? or why did u suggest I start using >single quotes. I've got a lot of legacy systems out there and I just >kept sticking with dubl. Also, I hate using % and _ -- it just looks >strange to me. Give me good ol * and ? >It's hard teaching an old dog new tricks.
Bernie, My dog is getting pretty old, but if there's a good enough treat involved, he's anxious to learn just about anything. R:Base 7.0 is better than Milkbone Flavor Snacks variety pack with peanut butter, beef, chicken, vegetable, bacon, and cheese! The SQL standard is a single quote. The SQL standard is % and _ for the wild card characters. ODBC standards are based on SQL standards. When the committees were making those decisions 20 years ago, you must not have attended the meetings to tell them that you hated those choices! But you're not really such an old dog. You use "u" (like those teenagers who thumb instant messages on their cell phones) where I would use "you." That use of "u" "just looks strange to me." <g> 7.0 won't "ignore" double quotes, but you will seriously cripple your own ability to do a lot of things, if you try to insist on keeping your non-standard settings. Your forms and reports and labels and applications won't convert easily. Your database won't be able to take advantage of a zillion improvements that help you integrate your R:Base data with other ODBC-compliant applications and software and data. Bernie, you wouldn't buy a brand new, large, flat panel, letterbox- capable, color HDTV and immediately try to set it to show you programs in tiny black and white only, would you? 7.0 is a quantum leap, _way_ above and beyond the old R:Base, even above and beyond some other development environments that were so pretty they could get away with "old dogs" for their database engines. Come along on the adventure, Bernie. The members of the list will give you all the tips you might need to get your old databases and applications over to the double-quote, percent-sign, underscore standard, so that you are ready to frolic with us other old dogs. You'll feel like a puppy again once you get to an R:Base University R:Base 7.0 seminar. Bill ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
