[AccessD] Access - FoxPro - SQL2000

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Sep 21 10:09:59 CDT 2005


FoxPro has been around for a very long time.   It started out as a dBase
clone but is based on the Rushmore database engine, which is much faster
than Jet, and which is the reason Microsoft bought it in the first
place.  There are a lot of older apps out there that were originally
written in FoxPro for the speed and then were maintained over the years
rather than being rewritten in something else.  Visual FoxPro eventually
became the product it was supposed to be (the early Visual versions were
simply a UI designer over a command line editor), but it seems to be as
much a stepchild now as Access is becoming.  It is no longer in Visual
Studio and I haven't heard whether there are any plans to make it .Net
compliant.  I know Access won't be, at least not if you can believe
Microsoft.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Johncliviger at aol.com [mailto:Johncliviger at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:08 AM
To: accessD at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Access - FoxPro - SQL2000


Hi List
 
Several time this year I've been asked to extract data a cash register
type  
software and each ocassion the data is in Foxpro. Where does Foxpro fit
into 
the  database market? Access is generally accepted as the entry level db
and 
SQL 2000  is for the heavy duty db. Is there are market for Foxpro
skills, is it 
 worth learning? or is it obsolete?
 
Comments most welcome
 
johnc
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