Need Basic Help

At my workplace our ERP software in on a VFP database. I have learned quite
a bit about extracting data with the select statements from the VFP
database. We are in the talks of converting the the SQL version of our ERP
and I have some very basic questions since I am extremely new to the SQL
world.
I have created executable forms in VFP that queries the VFP tables for
certain users. Can I continue to use these forms or do I need to go to
another software. Is my understanding correct that SQL cannot create forms
like the VFP does? If I can use the VFP interface what is the Select syntax
to access the SQL database from within the VFP interface?
The VFP looks like this: Select 'field names' from 'database name'!'table
name'
What would the SQL look like? I can use the Query Analyzer to do Select
statements but I would like to be able to query the SQL database from within
the VFP interface. Thanks for your help.
Hi
You can use VFP as a front end.
For a starter try checking out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/de...asp?frame=true
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...asp?frame=true
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pplication.asp
John
"Preacher Man" <nospam> wrote in message
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> At my workplace our ERP software in on a VFP database. I have learned
> quite
> a bit about extracting data with the select statements from the VFP
> database. We are in the talks of converting the the SQL version of our
> ERP
> and I have some very basic questions since I am extremely new to the SQL
> world.
> I have created executable forms in VFP that queries the VFP tables for
> certain users. Can I continue to use these forms or do I need to go to
> another software. Is my understanding correct that SQL cannot create
> forms
> like the VFP does? If I can use the VFP interface what is the Select
> syntax
> to access the SQL database from within the VFP interface?
> The VFP looks like this: Select 'field names' from 'database name'!'table
> name'
> What would the SQL look like? I can use the Query Analyzer to do Select
> statements but I would like to be able to query the SQL database from
> within
> the VFP interface. Thanks for your help.
>
>
|||Hi,
You'll get much better help posting questions like this in a FoxPro
newsgroup. Many FoxPro developers use SQL Server as a back end for their
applications and have much experience with it. SQL Server is a database
only - it has no front end to produce forms.
You can use the exact same SQL commands that you use in Query Analyzer to
access SQL Server via SQL Pass-through. Please look at SQLConnect,
SQLStringConnect, and SQLExec in the VFP Help.
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy_winegarden@.msn.com www.cindywinegarden.com
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/cindywinegarden
"Preacher Man" <nospam> wrote in message
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> I have created executable forms in VFP that queries the VFP tables for
> certain users. Can I continue to use these forms or do I need to go to
> another software. Is my understanding correct that SQL cannot create
> forms
> like the VFP does? If I can use the VFP interface what is the Select
> syntax
> to access the SQL database from within the VFP interface?
> The VFP looks like this: Select 'field names' from 'database name'!'table
> name'
> What would the SQL look like? I can use the Query Analyzer to do Select
> statements but I would like to be able to query the SQL database from
> within
> the VFP interface. Thanks for your help.
>
>