Re: Fuzzy Name Searching

2017-04-14 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 06:46 2017-04-14, Ken Dibble wrote: [snip] [Gene:] I have a couple of anvils around my neck, too. They prevent my system from easily being multi-user. One was a reasonable trade-off at the time, but the downside continues to bite. The other was an argument I

Re: [NF] What's in your event log?

2017-04-14 Thread Ted Roche
Thanks! On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Here is a good primer on powershell for log files. You have to put in the > specific log you are interested it getting the details from. After that, > the data is an object which is what we all like to

Re: Fuzzy Name Searching

2017-04-14 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-04-12 17:22, Mike wrote: I found a Levenshtein function somewhere last year and have been using it with MariaDB as a function on the MariaDB server, called from my VFP 9 application. It's exceptionally fast and works pretty well. My application needs to get "as close as" matches to a

Re: [NF] What's in your event log?

2017-04-14 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-04-13 11:25, Ted Roche wrote: Yup, using IPStuff or BLAT to send emails out of VFP is a piece of cake. SMTP good, MAPI Bad. I know you have always said this--AND I BELIEVE YOU!!!--but I've used CDO in my automatic bug reporting for years with success.

Re: Fuzzy Name Searching

2017-04-14 Thread Ken Dibble
Unfortunately, that would require modifications to the database, which I try to avoid due to the downtime they require. Why would that be an issue of consequence? You add some columns to a table. The rest of the software can ignore them. (Unless you use select * or other black