[NF] Dabo reaches another milestone

If you had to give one reason why Fox rocks, what would it be?

The UI and reporting tools are good, but there are other products out

there that do those things as well or better. The language is OO and

can be quite elegant, but it is also procedural and can be quite

ugly. And DBFs are not exactly the ultimate data store around.

No, if I had to name the killer feature, it would be this: an

internal data engine. With this, you can do things that other

languages simply cannot. You can pull a data set from SQL Server or

Postgres, and then manipulate that data quickly and powerfully, using

Fox's SQL engine as well as its Xbase commands. You can select a

subset from that cursor, and then join that subset to another cursor.

All in Fox, and all natively.

This was the piece that Dabo lacked, and that I felt would take

it from a second-rate data framework to a first-class product. Well,

I'm thrilled to announce that Dabo now has such an internal data

engine! Data in Dabo is held in objects called DataSets, but which

are very much like Fox cursors. These DataSet objects now understand

SQL, allowing you to send it any valid SQL statement and get back the

results in another DataSet object.

-- Ed Leafe