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Subject: RE: mysql vs ms sql server
Author: "Stephen the Cook"
Posted: 2005/01/31 17:38:46
 
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Gilbert M. Hale wrote:
>> To add an option to Stephen's, you can look at using CursorAdapters
>> if you're using at least Fox 8.
>
> Perhaps Ed can weigh in on the use of CursorAdapter with VFP8 and
> MySQL. It seems to me he ran into a problem with the MySQL ODBC
> driver selected for a VFP8-MySQL project last year, and ended up
> using SPT. SPT worked great, but it was a new app created with SPT
> in mind. If you can get around the MySQL ODBC issue the
> CursorAdapter would indeed be a nice "get-me-by".


When I first saw Cursor Adapters I thought it was the best way for Fox to
handle the backend. Then I tried it. After wasting 2 days on SqlServer,
XML, MySQL I chunked the idea of ever looking at it again.

CurosorAdaper = M$ hype IMO.

Stephen Russell
S.R. & Associates
Memphis, TN 38115

901.246-0159




 
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