On 7/21/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An associate (and heavy-duty consultant for Accenture) like to quote
There are 23 problems in computer science, and we keep solving them
over, and over and over.
Got his email address? ;-)
Yeah, but he charges a whole lot of money for
From: Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) applications came about when they
invented the second computer. There are some good apps, but the older
mainframe types tend to sell pretty expensive solutions. There were a
few apps that came about in the datbase explosion
Chet,
But there were only about 100 programmers worldwide then!
Dave Crozier
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Nope, that was COBOL.
That's how IBM
On 7/20/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I've spent lots of years doing it too. Which is why I'm surprised I
haven't built anything to automate the process yet.
An associate (and heavy-duty consultant for Accenture) like to quote
There are 23 problems in computer science, and
...then we will have solved all computer problems.
anyone remember The Last One?
Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
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On 7/21/06, Andy Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...then we will have solved all computer problems.
anyone remember The Last One?
Nope. Google suggests:
http://www.thelastone.org/index.html
http://www.wired.com/news/exec/0,1370,44464,00.html
on it!
Dave Crozier
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and to lie
about your age
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...then we
Was that the expert system that would write all your code for you
and no-one would ever need to code again?
The one that people had to hire programmers to use...
Mark
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An associate (and heavy-duty consultant for Accenture) like to quote
There are 23 problems in computer science, and we keep solving them
over, and over and over.
Got his email address? ;-)
I think there is a Fallacy of Generalization here:
Mebbe
Hi Bill,
Thanks for that.
Sounds like there's not been the required separation of
generalisation and particularisation of this problem yet.
In which case I've probably got some research and thinking to do.
And as such those pointers of yours will be very useful grist to the
mill! Thank you.
Nope, that was COBOL.
That's how IBM marketed it in '66. Cobol will do away with the need for
programmers...
Mark Stanton wrote:
Was that the expert system that would write all your code for you
and no-one would ever need to code again?
The one that people had to hire programmers to
Glad to help. If for any reason you're dissatisfied with an answer you
get on ProFox, Ed promises to return double what you paid for it.
He told me triple!
Now, don't go away mad.
H.
What you want to do - map data from one thing to another and move it
- pretty much describes my last
Heya Mark ..
I know your looking for general examples, but let me give you some
specific ones:
1. vfp to mySql database creation / xfer tool. Written in VFP, basically
is a massive tweak on the GenDBC app to map data types from VFP to mySQL,
create the output script IN VFP that can Run on a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vince Teachout wrote:
Good grief, guys! Sober up, and try speaking again! :-)
Are you referring to the fact that the (eminent) posters appear to
have entirely missed the point of my post and started talking about
the minor details?
Was my question really that
On 7/19/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you referring to the fact that the (eminent) posters appear to
have entirely missed the point of my post and started talking about
the minor details?
I was talking to Andy, not you.
Was my question really that difficult to read?
No,
No, it just wasn't particularly interesting.
Ouch.
Thanks for the help.
Mark
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On 7/19/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ouch.
Thanks for the help.
Glad to help. If for any reason you're dissatisfied with an answer you
get on ProFox, Ed promises to return double what you paid for it.
Now, don't go away mad.
What you want to do - map data from one thing to
This is prompted by my attempts to get an online shop and bulletin
board running.
The (proper?) available options use a backend database, which is of
course doing all sorts of things that my PC (VFP) based apps do.
Is there anything around that's a generalised map this data onto
that data
On 7/18/06, Andy Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you might look at mambo; joomla; drupel; plone...
... and Xaraya.
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you might look at mambo; joomla; drupel; plone...
... and Xaraya.
Good grief, guys! Sober up, and try speaking again! :-)
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Sent: 18 July 2006 11:56
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Subject: Database mapping
This is prompted by my attempts to get an online shop and bulletin board
running.
The (proper?) available options use
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