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Microsoft Visual
FoxPro is a great tool for building database solutions of all
sizes. Developers will have the necessary tools to manage
data—from organizing tables of information, running queries, and
creating an integrated relational database management system (DBMS) to
programming a fully-developed data management application for end users.
Its data-centric, object-oriented language offers developers a robust
set of tools for building database applications for the desktop,
client-server environments, or the Web.
Visual FoxPro is the finest client-server rapid
application development tool available today. And considering that
Visual Basic isn’t object-oriented, anyone using VFP for client-server
development has an automatic advantage over most
developers.
It is cheap to deploy. No need to buy Microsoft
Office or Access for each workstation and no need to purchase a Windows
2000 Server with SQL Server client licenses. Since data access is
built-in you only need to distribute the VFP runtime. VFP databases can
happily live on any file server. Using VFP can delay or remove the need
to move to SQL server, which will require fulltime administration.
At its core, VFP is a mighty data access tool
with a fast data engine than anything in its class. Results can be
retrieved from a table with millions of records in sub second time.
Equivalent queries would take seconds in Access. Access drops off
after a few thousand records while VFP generally out performs SQL Server
and Oracle up to a few million records.
So
depending on the size of your database, you may have little reason to
pay for the licensing and administration of backend databases such as
SQL Server and Oracle. verses
Microsoft Access verses Visual
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