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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern
California
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May 1995
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Tom Rettig
Our chain of good fortune continued in April, with one of the FoxPro “gurus” as our meeting speake. As a development leader with Ashton-Tate in the early dBase Ill era, Tom was one of the pioneers of the desktop database industry. As an independent developer, he has been a strong FoxPro advocate for many years, and has been tightly coupled with Fox Software and with Microsoft.
His presentation covered the Visual FoxPro database container with its myriad of new commands and capabilities, and was structured around the comprehensive document that accompanied his Devcon session. He started with the idea that working with a “real database” will be a big challenge. In the past, that statement would have triggered my defensive explanation that FoxPro was a real database, but I know what he means, and coming from Tom its okay.
Tom is so conscientious about reacting to audience questions, that even with a good presentation structure and very high transmission rate, he spent over three and a half hours covering the
16
page document. Good grief there is a lot to learn in this area
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Tom explained the ideas of database container, primary and foreign keys, persistent relations, referential and entity integrity, stored procedures, triggers, datatypes, defaults, rules, nulls, buffering, locking, indexes, and the new design tools for creating and managing these things
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and even then we didn’t get enough about his Extended Database Container class library. We will have copies of the paper at the next user meeting, but reading it without hearing Toms
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La Fox will be continuing the mini-DevCon series begun two months ago with Ken Levy and last month with Tom Rethg. The next three sessions will be as follows:
May 9, 1995, 7:30 PM
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George Goley. What can you say about George that hasn’t already been said? George is the founder of Micro Endeavors, Inc., the world’s most successful
FoxPro
training and development firm. He is the author of four database management books, as well as a contributing editor to and member of the Technical Advisory Board of
Data Based Advisor.
His articles have appeared in
DBA, FoxTalk, Byte,
and many other publications. His benchmark tests are still in use by vendors and users alike to determine the relative performance of PC databases. George has presented at all six US DevCons, where his performance sessions are standing room only.
[Please note the change in schedule for this
veiy
special meeting.]
June 21, 1995, 7:30 PM
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John Miller. John is past
President and current Vice-President of the Orange
County FoxPro Developers Group, as well as being
one of the featured speakers at the last DevCon, the
1994
FoxPro Users Conference in Minneapolis, and
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Inside this Issue..... FoxPro Q&A
Candy Machine Interfaces
Getting RAD with Application Frameworks
Hot Tip
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Page 7
Page 8
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TheMay meeting of LA Fox will be held on May 9,
1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the
Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance).
For details on how to get there, see the map on the
back page.
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