On 2017-05-02 07:21, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote:
Hey, all. I'm playing with the idea of writing an app for community band librarians to store their catalogs in. I actually use a Google Sheets file for the Bangor Band, because I'm worried about maintainability for the next person, but I've had a couple of ideas that would make sense to do this as a shared online database app. Since hosting the database myself right now isn't practical, I was wondering if anyone has experience with using a cloud database, and how to get started. I'm leaning towards VB.Net (as a learning project), which makes me think about SQL Azure, but I don't really know anything about it. Cost is a big factor here, if for no other reason that I don't want to waste much money during the development phase. Thanks!
I've written VFP apps since 2004 that have used MySQL/MariaDB on the web and have performed perfectly! (Thanks, Bob Lee for his session at GLGDW for inspiring me to go that way, and Paul McNett for his MakeUpdatable.prg in the ProFox archives, and Kevin Cully's help too!)