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- From: michaelh@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Michael Haldey)
- Subject: Re: picking between FoxPro and Paradox
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.014732.18081@g2syd.genasys.com.au>
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- Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia
- References: <hh2x.727968142@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <troj.728016494@cwis>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:47:32 GMT
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- In article <troj.728016494@cwis> troj@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Trojanowski) writes:
- >hh2x@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Danish) writes:
- >
- >>I'm working with a group on a large (10k+ lines) C program that manipulates
- >>large amounts of data in various ways. We want to buy a database so that we
- >>can perform some more standard manipulations on our output data. The main
- >>thing is sorting the data quickly on any field. Which program -- Foxpro or
- >>Paradox, or is there something faster I haven't heard of yet-- is faster
- >>when sorting huge data files up to 150 meg? can they both handle files of
- >>this size? if not, which handles larger files, and what are their limitations?
- >
- >>If Foxpro and Paradox are equal in this respect, then it would be helpful
- >>to know which one is easier to manipulate. Half of us are c programmers who
- >>could get by either way, but the other half might be aided by an easier
- >>interface... which program makes this easier to provide?
- >
- >FoxPro is a dBase derivative, and I've never been a big fan of dBase.
- >Actually, a more accurate assessment would be to say I loathe it. But
- >anyway...
- >
- >If you go with Paradox, you gain an easy advantage, in that you can purchase
- >the Paradox Engine, and have your C code directly access the Paradox tables.
- >What this allows you to do is write part of your application in PAL
- >(Paradox Application Language), and have it run external C programs when
- >necessary, but still allow the C code full access to the data without
- >having to go through the overhead of exporting/importing the data.
- >
-
- Unfortunately, with Paradox you loose a lot. If you decide to port your
- code somewhere and not to be limited by one product line, I'd suggest to
- use a dBase flavour. Depending on intentions you FoxPro, Clipper, or CodeBase
- may be used. Please do not forget, that xBase is a standard for PC
- world as SQL for UNIX-mainframe.
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