How do you modify the timestamp in local mode, or what constitutes a change
that you would change the local and not update the backend instead?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:51 PM, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> VFP9SP2 app, MySQL(MariaDB) secure database on web
>
> Scenario:  customer uses my software but has an extremely slow connection
> to the remote database and as such, queries involving large,
> sometimes-changing lookup data is slow.
> Solution:  pull data locally for quick lookup.  This works if I can do
> some sort of Sync operation to make sure the local copy matches the remote
> copy.
>
> The Primary Keys are varchar-40 GUID, and there's a timestamp field as
> well.  My thought was to use those 2 fields for the sync.  If it exists in
> both and the remote timestamp is newer, update the local record.  If it
> exists in the remote but not locally, add it local.  If it exists in the
> local but not in the remote, delete it from local.  Any new adds or updates
> to existing records will then be done to the remote database and then
> echoed locally.
>
> I was thinking I'd setup MariaDB locally for this local database.
>
> Comments on that plan of attack?
>
> tia,
> --Mike
>
>
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