Recent content by rhyd

yeah i'm actually in exactly the same boat as you. My company has tons of fox stuff (lots still running in 2.5 - that is Dos!). The move to visual was at first a real treat coz you get a really good gui design tool, and nearly fully compliant sql-92 (much better than mysql manages). The...

i also thought this problem had gone away - but no, I saw it in a large (200MB) VFP table just the other (unhappy) day. The solution is to migrate to sql-server which is what M$ want us to do anyway! it isn't in billyG's interests to make foxpro a rock solid enterprise tool because it would be...

exactly the same thing has happenned to my table. sql-inserts that occasionally fail silently without any error! this sort of thing makes me not want to use foxpro in mission critical stuff.... check out mysql - million times faster (over the network) and 100% reliable in my experience!

thanks for your help. I agree this probably will end up being beneficial most of the time. But it does seem MS have left out a feature available in vitually every other DB ever created! The only way to actually compact a database is to remove it from the handheld entirely and copy it back from...

i have written a vbce program for use in retail POS type environment. The system uses an access database to record sales, then when it syncs this database with the desktop a routine on the desktop copies the sales data into a master table and zaps the original (on the desktop), so that on next...