On 2017-12-29 12:00, Stephen Russell wrote:
I think you missed my point. this is a separate product you are creating that will pull data from VFP and only store it online. You can then build up a new style of reporting outside of VFP. Once they approve of it you can delete the data older than 4 years or 7 years from the VFP environment. The Data Scientist role may suit you very well.
Check out this: https://www.zs.com/services/technology/technology-services/big-data-and-data...
Thanks for the link. Data Scientist is definitely a job for the future and big $$$ I think! My original post was not so much about reporting; it was about hauling tons of data over the LAN that's no longer relevant and the archival process I proposed to resolve that (without permanently deleting data). As we said in a previous thread, the whole DBF isn't coming across the network unless you've got commands like REPLACE ALL etc. and unfortunately in the case of my previous Corporate app at Sylvan, there's tons of old code from previous devs where they did that often.