At 12:23 PM 1/18/2008 -0800, Bernardo Stanfield wrote: >I would like to share the following. I set up my system VFP 9 with VFP as >backend at a clients site which had a Pentium 3 PC as a server. The admin >office PC's were connected to ... >from the nightly back up. Since moving to SQL there has been no data >corruption. >I love VFP and have been using it to make a living since 1988, (with >FoxPro in DOS) but I try to avoid using it as a backend, especially now >with the advent of the SQL Server Express which is free up to 4 GB of >capacity. Best regards.
I'll share a little bit too. I've deployed about a dozen different systems in the past 10 years or so. All of them use a VFP database as the database. My general estimate is that these systems are installed at approximately 3,000 sites, and used by probably 10-20 thousand people overall. About the only DB problems we get are when they remap their drives (can't see DB any more), or some MS-certified IT person deletes some of the files of the database because they didn't know what they were. LOL, guess those amazing MS certifications really mean a lot. Can get accolades from MS about how "professional" you are and still not understand how a computer works. There have been some strange issues as always. Just like with any DB system (our MS-SQL systems seem to 'fail' fairly regularly). Anyway, don't get me wrong, I've worked with DB servers like Oracle, Informix, MySQL, MS-SQL, etc. I don't really have anything against them per se (apart from the idiotic yearly fees charged by <cough> some, and virus-holes, complexity added to customers, yada yada). I just don't get those corruptions. Not sure what I'm doing "wrong" .... ;-) -Chalrie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
