Post #224,292
9/11/05 1:21:11 PM
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DOA, too. Now, if you want something along these lines...
I'd suggest: [link|http://www.fship.com|http://www.fship.com]
Compiles most Xbase crap and will run it on Linux.
As far as a "desktop database" goes, even the PITA POS MS Access is a hell of a lot better than Xbase. Xbase is just so 80's. ;0)
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #224,308
9/11/05 5:20:12 PM
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xbase is useful, access is just annoying
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #224,415
9/12/05 1:01:55 PM
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For very small values of 'useful' ;0)
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #224,452
9/12/05 4:33:35 PM
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wrote automated Grocery store inventory and sales with xbase
bar-codes scanning registers, inventory restocking levels, complete GL accounting. Tad more than small. thanx, bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
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Post #224,458
9/12/05 4:47:26 PM
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Same here. But I moved on.
Worked for a Fortune 100 company that did its entire GL with it, also ASN notification (internal and external customers) and personally wrote a golf shop app that handled multiple stores - inventory, barcode, point-of-sale, quoting, etc. Still, unless you're working with very small datasets, it sucks. And, it's moot anyway because it is dead or nearly so.
I was a Clipperhead from 1986-1994.
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #224,467
9/12/05 5:13:40 PM
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Grumpfish Lives!
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #224,472
9/12/05 5:27:50 PM
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Hadn't thought of that in years. ;0)
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #224,477
9/12/05 5:52:22 PM
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Bleargh.
Ever use Zachary?
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #224,579
9/13/05 1:20:59 PM
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Nope
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #224,488
9/12/05 6:16:39 PM
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fun stuff for its day, after working with Oracle the last 2
years I find the suckage rate not to be that bad. Clarify I am not a DBA Im a sysadm who had to support DBA's with differing values of Suck thanx, bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #224,523
9/13/05 12:51:41 AM
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Beats SQL for some things
SQL can be difficult to factor out repetition of code/concepts. For example, you cannot reference repeated concepts by name, having to use nesting instead, which sometimes results in duplication when the references are not really tree-shaped. Time to dump SQL for better relational languages that don't try to mirror COBOL synax.
Further, most Xbase dialects lets one define a UDF while most RDBMS do not, at least not without special previlegdes. I am not saying Xbase is perfect, but sometimes it gets around problems found in SQL and/or MS-Access for custom chomping beyond simple queries. The industry tends to force one to use Big-Iron SQL in combination with MS-Access, and those two are both half-ass. My current gig requires a lot of custom chomping of data, so I need better tools. My partners do a lot of shit by hand that I would rather automate somehow. I cannot compete with their manual mass-copy-and-paste efforts because I am not used to so much manual stuff. I am not geared to be keyboard clerk. The problem is that it is tough to sell them on more automation and factoring because they are so fast and used to manual typing. They get edgy when I try to introduce scripts. I think they fear being automated out of work, but won't admit it. It's not like there is not plenty to do now, but maybe in slow times the scripts could result in staff reduction.
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Post #224,363
9/12/05 2:07:29 AM
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Gotta register to SEE prices? Suspicious
Besides, it appears to be a Clipper clone, and clipper tends to be less interactive than interpretative dialects.
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Post #224,830
9/15/05 2:36:29 PM
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Huh? Personal is Free for download.
Whatchasmokin' dude?
[link|http://www.fship.com/prices.html|http://www.fship.com/prices.html]
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #231,611
10/30/05 11:54:53 PM
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Free version is Linux only
Nothing against Linux, but due to QWERTY syndrome, most biz's use Windows.
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Post #232,165
11/2/05 3:23:17 PM
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But you don't have to just to eval it.
bcnu, Mikem
It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #224,428
9/12/05 2:03:21 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #224427 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=224427|ICLRPD]
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