{"id":409,"date":"2004-12-18T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=409"},"modified":"2007-10-20T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T10:54:00","slug":"the-ultimate-power-and-speed-of-vfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/409","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Power and Speed of VFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/archives\/00000406.html\" target=\"_blank\">semi-disorganized thoughts about the 2GB-limit<\/a> on Visual Foxpro databases\/tables.<\/p>\n<p>While reading this post about <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=32525\" target=\"_blank\">VFP9 on Channe9<\/a>, I found a link to this article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/advisor.com\/Articles.nsf\/aid\/MATIV02\" target=\"_blank\">The Ultimate Power and Speed of VFP<\/a> <br \/>\nHandling Extremely Large Data Sets<br \/>\nBy Val Matison<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt is a very informative read. A must read.<\/p>\n<p>It also discusses areas such as speed (where Foxpro really shines), data compression, data access, maintenance, backup and restore procedures, data integrity, data corruption, security, power and speed and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Months ago I was ranting about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxproadvisor.com\" target=\"_blank\">FoxproAdvisor.com<\/a>&#8216;s lack of dates on their archived articles. Now I know why it lacks them.<\/p>\n<p>Information about VisualFoxpro is ageless, backward compatible and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I posted some semi-disorganized thoughts about the 2GB-limit on Visual Foxpro databases\/tables. While reading this post about VFP9 on Channe9, I found a link to this article: The Ultimate Power and Speed of VFP Handling Extremely Large Data Sets By Val Matison It is a very informative read. A must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-foxpro","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}