You're right, VFP 3.0, which was released in '95, made some improvements. There was this database container thing that would group related table and enforce referential integrity. Also, the newer...

Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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mtillman-921105 (9/21/2010)

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Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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mtillman-921105 (9/21/2010)

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To what extent were relational DBMS created because drive space wasn't cheap and processing power was weak? Big, flat tables weren't...

When I stop and think about it, this all so really sad... The thought all of my precious, lonely tables never again being able to have relations... you...

Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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mtillman-921105 (9/21/2010)

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To what extent were relational DBMS created because drive space wasn't cheap and processing power was weak? Big, flat tables weren't helpful in either case...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/21/2010)

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mtillman-921105 (9/21/2010)

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To what extent were relational DBMS created because drive space wasn't cheap and processing power was weak? Big, flat tables weren't helpful in either...

To what extent were relational DBMS created because drive space wasn't cheap and processing power was weak? Big, flat tables weren't helpful in either case years ago.

Now...

I wouldn't fire Palmer yet. Maybe Palmer just had...

dld (9/17/2010)

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There probably is a better tool than Crystal, but we use that simply because it interfaces nicely with our ERP software and we know how to use it. I...

dld (9/17/2010)

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I think it's important to distinguish between reports which are meant to be looked at as a unit and possibly printed, as opposed to a dump of data that...

RBarryYoung (9/15/2010)

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Tom.Thomson (9/10/2010)

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The rest of this comment is a [n ex-] mathematical logician's take on Codd's work on having two sorts of NULL. Don't read it if you want...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/14/2010)

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Well I sent a note to our BIT friend and got a reply back. Apparently

- he was abused

- I contributed to the abuser by pointing...

Since today is almost over,

lunaediesophobia

The Fear of Mondays.

Yes, the table structure would be helpful. To easily see the structure, use

sp_help RM00301

See the block that begins with the column Coliumn_Name and copy the first 7 columns.

Steve, thanks for clarifying that.

I'm not saying that optimization isn't important, it is. But the SPs I write don't have to be scrutinized for optimum performance since...

The Dixie Flatline (9/10/2010)

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I played a lot of Civilization. It took a while, but it finally dawned on me that the barbarians weren't my true enemies. ...