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Ted Roche, MCSD |
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Director of Development |
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(781) 663-7400 |
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http://www.bstone.com |
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Fox Software purchased 3/1992 |
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More products from the group |
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Visual FoxPro: |
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Object-Oriented Programming |
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Powerful local data engine |
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Full support for OLE and ODBC |
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SQL: ANSI-92 Insert, Update, Select, Delete |
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SQL Passthrough |
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Views: local, remote, offline |
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Buffering and Transactions |
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Database Container for triggers, rules,
relational integrity |
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Powerful, well-known Xbase language |
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Security |
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24 x 7 availability |
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Low Bandwidth situations (Internet) |
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2 Gb file limit |
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One-tier, two-tier, n-tier, blue-tier |
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ADO, RDO, DAO, DMO - |
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I don’t know! |
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Backward compatibility: run as is |
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Conversion to VFP: |
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Functional |
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Visual |
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Using FoxPro’s Transporter & Conversion
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DEMO |
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Upsizing Wizard |
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Create new data store |
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Convert views from local and remote |
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Conversion of schema |
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FoxPro facilities |
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Third-party tools |
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DEMO |
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Visual FoxPro is more than DBFs: |
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Robust programming language |
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Powerful local data engine |
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Conversion to SQL Server can be incremental: |
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Code Conversion |
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Schema Conversion |
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Port to n-tier |
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Notes