RE: [NF] Dabo reaches another milestone

Ed, you must feel terrific, having pulled this off. I have got to find a

way to carve out some time to start working with it! I loaned out my "Day

Stretcher" to "someone", and need to get it back.

Seriously, congratulations!

Gil

Gilbert M. Hale

New Freedom Data Resources

Pittsford, NY

585-359-8085

gil@gilhale.com

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com

> [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Ed Leafe

> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:34 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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