Yup, that is the Mother of all Features.

Congratulations on this achievement! Very impressive.

Bill

> 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.

>

http://dabodev.com/wiki/DataSet

-- Ed Leafe

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