On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:56 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Kaye wrote: >> That's cause you still write Foxbase+ code... <vbg> We also have a STEP >> parameter if you want to increment by some value other than 1. > > Steve checked out of VFP dev back at version 5 or 6. <gd&r> ---------------
6 to the start of 7 make that 6.5 ;-> Or I left a job that was in 6, and worked with FPDos again for 2-3 years in a keep it running mode while doing SQL Server Data Warehouse work. On hiring day I was told to NOT fix it. That was the right thing to say because the system was poorly designed and data was flat filed at best. Sure it took 5 years and up to 30 coders to replace it. But that replacement system has won numerous awards at Medical software shows for Clinical Trials. I had a table for blood tests and it had a column for just about each one of these listed here. <http://www.bloodtestresultsexplained.com/blood-test-abbreviations> Replaced with a normalized system that only had rows for what the Trial was interested with/in. Usually 2, 4, or maybe 6 at most of the values. Having to give the data in my fox system to the Biostatisticians took a lot of writing up rules for what they were to expect for this trial vs that trial. If it were normalized data they would have seen 4 Types of values and a null was now real instead of a 0. I learned a lot working next to the replacement team. Why collections of collections were a good thing and how to snapshot in time and be able to store that so comparisons could be made across other patients at similar points in treatment. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ 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.
