Category: Database
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MadFox January 2011 Recap
Another great MadFox is in the books!
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In Visual FoxPro, Using 32-bit ODBC Drivers on 64-bit Windows
Notes to my future self on how to get 32-bit ODBC drivers installed on 64-bit Windows.
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Southwest Fox 2010 Recap
Southwest Fox 2010 has come and gone. Here’s my take.
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The Upgrade Trail from Visual FoxPro to Silverlight is Getting Blazed
If you’re interested in upgrading to Silverlight, Southwest Fox Conference is the place to go.
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On VFP and MySql ConnectionStrings
I’ve begun doing some preliminary data warehousing of VFP data into MySql in order to test the speed, similar to what I did a few posts back with Advantage Database Server. Since MySql can’t just use VFP tables the way Advantage can, I created a script to manually load the already extracted and transformed data […]
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Results of In-Depth Testing of Visual Foxpro vs. Advantage Database Server
I was able to spend quite a bit of time configuring a copy of Advantage Database Server (ADS), and then running a series of tests to compare its performance against native Visual Foxpro (VFP). For the ADS, I created a new database on the server and pointed it at a folder of VFP tables. I […]