RE: [NF] Dabo reaches another milestone

That is great news. I'll take a look at it this coming weekend. Thanks Ed

for all the hard work.

Craig Boyd, CEO

SweetPotato Software, Inc.

Website: www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

Tel: 507-562-0020 Fax: 507-562-0456

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From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Ed Leafe

Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 12:34 PM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: [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

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