fP's MySQL capabilities?

Scott Walker ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
Wed Jul 25 11:14:22 PDT 2012



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> bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> Bill Campbell
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> Subject: Re: fP's MySQL capabilities?
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012, Paul McNary wrote:
> ...
> 
> >I have been evaluating it for several months. It is what I needed and
> >wanted.
> 
> >You have a mySQL table and want to use it in the same way you use a
> >native filePro table from within filePro. Define screens, reports,
> >processing, and all works fine. Updating, adding new records, deleting
> >all works as I expected it to. I have not tried playing with filePro
> >auto indexes. There are some limitations documented.

Paul,

Where are the limitations documented.  Thanks for taking the time to share
this information.

Scott

 One time manual
> >indexes, doesn't appear to have any limitations in the filePro context.
> 
> >You do have the ODBC limits of 254 columns(fields) and inability to
> >directly using Text/Image (Blob) fields. 999 character field length
> limit.
> >I can deal with these in other ways if I need them.
> 
> If that's the case, could this be used with Postgres?
> 
> Bill
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