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Inquiring Minds Want to Know About your use of FastForms

I’m trying to determine which M2M topics you folks want to read about. We can all use VBA, but since FastForms is an optional module less people may be interested in reading about it.

Please specify your level of interest in M2M FastForms.

I own FastForms and use [...]

Some Quick Topics

Here are some things I thought were interesting this week:

A Few Good DBA’s This is a humorous take on Jack Nicholson’s rant in “A Few Good Men.” I’ll include an excerpt below as the site requires free registration to view the article and I know many of you won’t bother.

Manager: [...]

By Your Command... Scheduler

I got an email from someone regarding this post regarding my preference for Crystal Reports. The question is, “What is Command Scheduler and what is wrong with it?”

First, in this blog I try to emphasize the importance of two way communication. If you don’t understand something, or you think I’m crazy, [...]

I, for One, Welcome Our New .Net Overlords (Reporting)

In a previous post I recommended the use of Crystal Reports and listed some of the advantages of doing so. One of the primary reasons I am looking forward to the Made2Manage .Net future is my fervent hope that VFP Reporting will go away. Visual FoxPro reporting must die. In this [...]

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

Well, Thanksgiving is just a week away. Every year about this time I remember one of the funniest episodes of any television show in history. Of course, I am referring to the WKRP in Cinncinati’s Turkey Drop and I still laugh every time I see it.

It’s a helicopter, and [...]

Having “Fun” With Job Order Numbers

I recently received a call from a company that had “run out” of internal job order numbers.

As an error message, this one is fairly descriptive. However, 9 times out 10 the person who receives it won’t have permissions to modify the numbering system anyway. Some research on M2MExpert [...]

What Reporting Methods are You Using?

I’d like to get a better idea of what reporting options my readers are using so I will know which of them I should cover regularly. Feel free to comment on why you use your preferred reporting option(s).

Please check all the reporting options you use.

Visual FoxPro included [...]

Quality Reporting on a Budget

Approximately 4 years ago at a National User Conference, a Made2Manage customer gave a demonstration of Crystal Reports. It is my understanding that at the time, Made2Manage was in negotiations with Crystal to license it as a partner to provide a quality alternative to Visual FoxPro reporting. Well, that demo made an impression [...]

Reporting Issues When Migrating to Version 5.6

I noticed a couple of reporting issues when migrating from 5.51 to 5.6 earlier this year and I wanted to share them with you.

Let me preface this by saying that I am extremely thorough during migration testing. In a future post, I will describe the method I use when I perform a [...]

SQL DBA Quiz – I’ll Play Your Game, You Rogue.

Today I was tagged by SQL Ninja Brent Ozar after he was tagged by Chris Shaw for this brief SQL DBA Quiz. His quiz requests that I name two mistakes I’ve made in my career. As someone who celebrates his mistakes, of course I will have to oblige. The title of my post, is [...]

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