Re: Relational Databases

by Stephen Johnston <pepe(at)gainsay.com>

Date:	Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:20:55 -0700
To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
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At 11:12 AM 4/6/2000 , you wrote:
>One of the beauties with CF is that you can design and prototype with 
>Access and then
>upsize that to MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase or other database platforms without 
>having to
>re-code the application.


Susan-

         I typically chalk this capability up to the ODBC interface, which 
allows for database transparency.  I am not refuting that CF is a good 
tool, but proper coding in almost any application (using ODBC) will allow 
for this.  In addition certain database capabilities will not be 
transferable if you start to use them.  I just want people to realize that 
CF is not the answer for database transparency, it is really good coding 
and knowledge of the cross DB capabilities exposed by ODBC that allow for this.

-Stephen Johnston

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