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HOLY SHIT! VFP? I was trying to remake a Thai organization's legacy VFP system with a better tech stack, and got fucked up really hard with the encoding scheme (they used a mix of tis-620 and windows-874) and trying to find a good software to use. Luckily I sorted it out in a day, and successfully migrated the FP database and ported the legacy system to my new React webapp, React Native mobile app and FeathersJS (based on express.js) backend. Used sequelize as ORM and postgres as database.
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@phoomparin That sounds really impressive considering the pain you must've endured throughout all of that, kudos!
I've been assigned lots of database work the last couple of weeks. Managing old databases are what make or break people surely.
The customers have this proprietary mess of a Visual FoxPro database manager.
I spent the entire day navigating what I should and shouldn't export for them (as they're fortunately trying to rid themselves of the service)
When I was supposed to do the export, the proprietary hardware only allowed exports of 25 rows at a time with the free version this big company is using... I ehr... I just regret not converting it into SQL to begin with.
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