Re: [OT] Visual Fox Pro vs. SQL

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2005


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texte = Will Starck wrote: > One company's offering uses Visual Fox Pro 9. We would like to use > wireless tablet PCs to check patients in and out, etc, which the SQL > based products vendors support (they say). Also, we have two offices, so > we want to have a centralized server that can be accessed from the other > office via a VPN. > > The VFP 9 based product's vendor bad mouths wireless connections: VFP is a shared-database application (like Access is), which means each instance of the application must connect to the actual database files to perform queries and updates. This makes is unreliable for situations where the network connectivity is not perfect (or even just slow). However, you could consider using that application in a Terminal server setup. Run TS on the central server and have the tablet PC's use TS to access the application. The database is always local to the TS session and this should be much more reliable over VPN's. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [OT] Visual Fox Pro vs. SQL ( "Will Starck" 2005)
  2. Re: [OT] Visual Fox Pro vs. SQL ( John Peacock 2005)
  3. [OT] Visual Fox Pro vs. SQL ( "Will Starck" 2005)
Will Starck wrote: > One company's offering uses Visual Fox Pro 9. We would like to use > wireless tablet PCs to check patients in and out, etc, which the SQL > based products vendors support (they say). Also, we have two offices, so > we want to have a centralized server that can be accessed from the other > office via a VPN. > > The VFP 9 based product's vendor bad mouths wireless connections: VFP is a shared-database application (like Access is), which means each instance of the application must connect to the actual database files to perform queries and updates. This makes is unreliable for situations where the network connectivity is not perfect (or even just slow). However, you could consider using that application in a Terminal server setup. Run TS on the central server and have the tablet PC's use TS to access the application. The database is always local to the TS session and this should be much more reliable over VPN's. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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