General Topics in Database Development

The tips on this page do not apply to any particular language. They are just our thoughts on some general topics of software development:

Address formats
ASCII codes.
Automatic backups
"Data", singular or plural?
Database Support
Design a form to make data entry easier.
Duplicate records
Error handling
Fonts for data entry
Golden ratio in form design
Normalising a database
Searching the site
Software Development
Specifying software
Top ten tips
Tower of Hanoi pattern of backup

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Hints & tips

The textbox class in Visual FoxPro 9 has a new Autocomplete property which shows the user the previous values that have been entered in that textbox.
Autocomplete in VFP 9

Your Access database will look more impressive if you add custom toolbars...
Custom toolbars

FoxPro has always had functions to read and write files at a low level...
Foxpro low level file functions

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