>
> Hmm, ever tried using a large multiuser database such as a finance
> system using a Foxpro database? Network managers have been known to
> murder for less... :-)
>
Hmm, I have, and you could imagine the result :)
It was a small system, really and everything was fine until I added my 10th
user. Then my data left me like the parting of the Red Sea :).
Building a database system on lousy tehnology, only to rewrite it is
something all database admins have to go through. I think its kind of like
coming of age. On the unix side of things, you have mysql catching people
the same way.
FP did have a very nice query optimizer. Also, FP views optimized the where
condition through the query, and have for quite some time (does PG do this
yet?). I think the FP team was really on to something, till M hamstrung the
project.
FP also had the ability to write user defined functions into the query,
something I thought I would have to give up forever, until I stumbled across
PG (from the mysql docs, go figure!)
Merlin
