There's a Hentzenwerke book about upsizing your apps to MySQL. It covers a lot of the little gotchas. If you poke around I bet there's a copy floating around somewhere.
Eric On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < [email protected]> wrote: > Besides what the others said in code and uncoded messages (lol), I > recall having to have the remote views database locally (instead of a > common location on the network) due to VFP locking something which would > cause issues. > > Good luck! > --Michael > > > On 11/24/2024 9:42 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Before we start this just figured it would make sense to reach out to > you guys for any general advice or pointers you can give. > > > > We have a typical multiuser VFP application using a DBC with DBF’s and > local views. > > > > The forms that interact with this data all have a DE and for the > deployed versions we have DPATHMGR sorting the DE paths out making > everything work. > > > > We have no immediate need to change anything about from front end , it’s > relatively straight forward and most of the code is based around > TABLEUPDATE and TABLEREVERT. > > > > Our mission is just to loose the DBFs and move the data to SQL as our > first pass. No intentions to make use of SQL things like stored procedures > , we just want to treat it as a data dump for the moment. > > > > So after using VFPX/UpsizingWizard our initial thoughts are to replace > the local view with remote views and then continue with the current method > of CRUD via the views. > > > > Anything you feel is worth a heads up on for us to consider before we > get on with it? > > > > Regards > > > > Chris [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CAAwxvU=zhhoe+g58fc9dtch+-ccohs0uintelarztiuckah...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
