Silent/behind-the-scenes installation of MariaDB from VFP (or from Inno Setup)

I'm going to be distributing a free single user (localhost) version of one of my VFP9SP2 fat client apps, and I'd like to install MariaDB behind the scenes easily (meaning without me having to manually install it on every machine). Does anyone have experience with exactly or something like

Re: Testing tells the tale (SYS 3054) -- "BETWEEN(a, b, c)" equivalent to "a BETWEEN b and c"

On 2018-03-19 18:29, Bill Anderson wrote: Mike, I believe ALLTRIM()s in SQL doesn't "defeat" optimization, it's just that you can't have ragged (meaning, varying length) indexes in VFP. A tag on ALLTRIM(field) is padded out to the full length of the field. Bill Anderson Hi Bill! But it

Re: AW: _VFP vs _SCREEN

On 2018-03-19 17:37, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: Think of _VFP as "the engine" and _SCREEN as the "visual representation". Don't fiddle with the engine! wOOdy Ah, good way to look at it. Stay away from the _VFP object! lol ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Testing tells the tale (SYS 3054) -- "BETWEEN(a, b, c)" equivalent to "a BETWEEN b and c"

Mike, I believe ALLTRIM()s in SQL doesn't "defeat" optimization, it's just that you can't have ragged (meaning, varying length) indexes in VFP. A tag on ALLTRIM(field) is padded out to the full length of the field. Bill Anderson On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:55 PM, <

AW: _VFP vs _SCREEN

Think of _VFP as "the engine" and _SCREEN as the "visual representation". Don't fiddle with the engine! wOOdy -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ProFox Im Auftrag von mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2018 21:21 An: ProFox

_VFP vs _SCREEN

(I checked the ProFox archive but searching for _VFP _SCREEN (with underscore, with underscored escaped, and without underscore) did not turn up any matches or at least the ones applicable). I know we've discussed this somewhere in the past but could not find the reference.) I was adding

Re: Testing tells the tale (SYS 3054) -- "BETWEEN(a, b, c)" equivalent to "a BETWEEN b and c"

-Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:34 PM To: ProFox Subject: Testing tells the tale (SYS 3054) -- "BETWEEN(a,b,c)" equivalent to "a BETWEEN b and c"

RE: Testing tells the tale (SYS 3054) -- "BETWEEN(a, b, c)" equivalent to "a BETWEEN b and c"

I was working at a place that did ran batch processes at night using VFP. One of the managers came up to me and told me of a process that used to take 30 minutes now was taking 5 hours. Combined with the other processes, this meant we couldn't complete the processing overnight any longer and