Hi Steve,

Again, it's not an issue with non-VFP backends like MySQL. This was

about the VFP-backend folks. If I were to redesign an app, I would use

MariaDB as the backend if I could.

HNY!

--Mike

On 2017-12-29 11:26, Stephen Russell wrote:

> Why not create a Data Warehouse for that data and archive it that way.

> You

> can put that into mySQL and remove it from .dbfs at the same time.

>

> Create your Fact and Dimension tables to contain the true data needed

> for

> your DW over the long haul. Then you can investigate a variety of

> tools to

> enable Data Analytics going forward. This might give you some ideas on

> that.

> https://blog.capterra.com/free-and-open-source-data-visualization-tools/

>

>

>

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM, <

> mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

>

>> I've seen long-time softwares with VFP backends that had a ton of data

>> (10+ years worth) and I had devised a method in one case recently to

>> be

>> able to "archive" old data by storing it in a subfolder intelligently

>> (so

>> it could be easily retrieved and/or reimported into the main data

>> set). I

>> haven't used a VFP backend since 2004 when Bob Lee introduced me to

>> the

>> MySQL world but nonetheless I thought I'd ask if devs here ever put

>> anything like an "archiving" feature into their software, and how they

>> do

>> it. In my case, instead of slinging 600MB of data across the network

>> (in

>> the case of one of my clients), my archiving showed a reduction of

>> like

>> 75%, so only 25% of that was being pulled across the LAN instead.

>> (They

>> didn't need all the data from the beginning of the App's time...they

>> just

>> needed relevant/recent data.)

>>

>> I realize that with MySQL and other such RDBMSes this is a non-issue,

>> but

>> I wanted to ask the VFP-backend folks their approach to this for the

>> sake

>> of (hopefully) interesting discussion. One final juicy thread before

>> 2017

>> is finished. :-)

>>

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