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Actually, rather similar. Visual FoxPro used SQL syntax for large majority of it's database and free table operations. Some commands were slightly different, an
by ericcholis 14y ago
Actually, rather similar. Visual FoxPro used SQL syntax for large majority of it's database and free table operations. Some commands were slightly different, and allowed you to use VFP specific commands in them. But, transitioning a VFP app to use a SQL backend was relatively simple.
Actually, my shop still runs a few VFP tasks that connect to various MySQL backends as well as JSON API services.
Side note, there is a very useful Python library for working with VFP xBase (.dbf) tables: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbf
- meepmorp 14y agoI thought you meant real FoxPro - like 2.x for DOS/Unix. Now, that was a desktop database development system. Lightning fast, portable between SCO and DOS, easy to work with. Made clipper and dBase look like pokey hunks of poop in comparison. That and netware 3.12, plus some low powered machines with token ring cards for clients - golden days, I tell you.