Hi,

I am totally new to the world of CLIPPER. here at the office, the previous 
responsable for computer, has left a software (using clipper) in MS DOS. No 
we want to see if it can be converted to clipper under windows using SQL 
server.

1) is it difficult converting everything to winodws?
2) If I convert the DB to SQL, how do you connect it then? What are the 
codes for using it?
3) Would it be better to start from zero? or doing the convertion?
4) if there are any good books, please tell me!!!!

Thx already,

David

Hello David,
I can only encourage you to use SQLEXPRESS from Boris and eXPress++ for the 
conversion. It is very simple, I have converted huge applications in a very 
short time. Look at the sample with a really simple code, maybe this can 
help you.
If Roger Donnay make some simple extensions, you can use the standard 
SAY/GET syntax for SQL table variables created with a SQLEXPRESS SQL-Cursor. 
I cannot recomment ODBCDBE, it does not work for me in complicated 
constructions like constraints, NULL values etc. SQLEXPRESS has also a 
perfect support, much more functionality and no problems all the time I 
using it in systems with much users und complicated database structures.
If you want, I can help you to start in a very short time.
regards
Rudof


"David" <davido2001@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Hi,
>
> I am totally new to the world of CLIPPER. here at the office, the previous
> responsable for computer, has left a software (using clipper) in MS DOS. 
> No
> we want to see if it can be converted to clipper under windows using SQL
> server.
>
> 1) is it difficult converting everything to winodws?
> 2) If I convert the DB to SQL, how do you connect it then? What are the
> codes for using it?
> 3) Would it be better to start from zero? or doing the convertion?
> 4) if there are any good books, please tell me!!!!
>
> Thx already,
>
> David
>
>