Although this question may partially have a technical nature to it, it's seemed logical to ask it in this forum.
My question is how do you logistically update a FM database (ie: add features, fix bugs, improve layouts), when both the data and the code are married to eachother in the same file, and your client is using the database at his office, but you want to work on it at your office.
My last experience with database developement was with dBaseIV (remember that software?) and the program code was separate from the database file, making it possible to update the program code while your client is still using it and adding records to the database file.
Do you have to create complex import scripts, so every time you bring a new version to your client, it imports his current data. And if so, what about fields with an auto entered serial number. How do you know where it left off.
Any insight would be appreciated. A solution here would certainely fill a major gap in my understanding of how to develop for clients.
[ June 03, 2001: Message edited by: stevo ]
