I have been operating a site hosted by via Zebrahost for over a decade now. I wrote everything via the native DBF database backend included with Alpha. Zebra told me we may be hitting the max capabilities with DBF and need to move to SQL. I only have 3-4 "power users" who are on our site all day long processing back-end stuff. We have users log in and back out throughout the day to post payments and create some quote documents. We work with insurance agents throughout the state and many could be logged in during the day but their terminal just sits idle most of the time unless a client of theirs comes in to make a payment or whatever... this could be 20+ users logged in all day long but little actual activity would be occurring with each.
Do any of you feel that we are maxing out the DBF capabilities?
I am worried that this is case because I am the sole programmer for my company - I wrote every line of code... it took 3 years from 2008-11 to get the site started not to mention the thousands of hours of coding since then to improve/update our site...(i also had a FT job back then in addition to coding this originally. Now I code and run the company as well). I am worried that every page, grid, ux, xbasic page will need to be rewritten to work with the SQL DB since all of the operations are different... am I correct in this assumption? I have a ton of xbasic pages written to handle lots of calculations for estimating insurance premiums, APR calculations, creating payment plans etc...
I see that there is a tool to migrate the DBF to SQL --- i am opposed to paying thousands of $ for MSSQL... I would prefer MySQL since it is free.... am I missing out or limiting myself by going with MySQL over MSSQL?
I just started writing the code for another sister company I am going to launch and I started this on DBF as well... I am worried that I should start over and go with SQL from the start on that one so I dont run into the same issues...
I have looked at Alpha documentation a bit with regard to SQL --- any recommendations on where to start or any other sources of knowledge which helped you get going on SQL?
Thanks guys & gals! This community rocks!
Do any of you feel that we are maxing out the DBF capabilities?
I am worried that this is case because I am the sole programmer for my company - I wrote every line of code... it took 3 years from 2008-11 to get the site started not to mention the thousands of hours of coding since then to improve/update our site...(i also had a FT job back then in addition to coding this originally. Now I code and run the company as well). I am worried that every page, grid, ux, xbasic page will need to be rewritten to work with the SQL DB since all of the operations are different... am I correct in this assumption? I have a ton of xbasic pages written to handle lots of calculations for estimating insurance premiums, APR calculations, creating payment plans etc...
I see that there is a tool to migrate the DBF to SQL --- i am opposed to paying thousands of $ for MSSQL... I would prefer MySQL since it is free.... am I missing out or limiting myself by going with MySQL over MSSQL?
I just started writing the code for another sister company I am going to launch and I started this on DBF as well... I am worried that I should start over and go with SQL from the start on that one so I dont run into the same issues...
I have looked at Alpha documentation a bit with regard to SQL --- any recommendations on where to start or any other sources of knowledge which helped you get going on SQL?
Thanks guys & gals! This community rocks!
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