Re: FormGrep - Search engine for Developer/2000 SQL*Forms 4.5

Robert,

Excellent question ! I can answer it with another question in the form of a real world problem (which FormGrep helped solve):

You are the project manager for an app that consists of 200 forms and 75 libraries. The DBA comes to you, and she says "Oops we made a mistake. We put some commit processing in one of our stored procedures and we need to remove it. Have your developers handle the commit processing in their forms and libraries."

Your committed delivery date for the app is 3 weeks away. How long is it going to take to make all the changes ?

Well, you can generate text on all 200 forms, then what (by the way how do you generate text on a PLL) ? FTP them to Unix and write a sed/awk script to find all the occurences ? Remember, you need the context (block.item.trigger/procedure/function) of each occurence to scope the effort and not just the fact that its there.

Obviously, if you only have 2 forms and 1 pll, you probably don't need FormGrep. Try the FREE demo, then tell me what you think.

Jesse Johnson
Managing Principal

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