> > Hmm, ever tried using a large multiuser database such as a finance > system using a Foxpro database? Network managers have been known to > murder for less... :-) > Hmm, I have, and you could imagine the result :) It was a small system, really and everything was fine until I added my 10th user. Then my data left me like the parting of the Red Sea :).
Building a database system on lousy tehnology, only to rewrite it is something all database admins have to go through. I think its kind of like coming of age. On the unix side of things, you have mysql catching people the same way. FP did have a very nice query optimizer. Also, FP views optimized the where condition through the query, and have for quite some time (does PG do this yet?). I think the FP team was really on to something, till M hamstrung the project. FP also had the ability to write user defined functions into the query, something I thought I would have to give up forever, until I stumbled across PG (from the mysql docs, go figure!) Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]