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I am currently learning VB6 from a 1998 textbook...
You could talk to a tree for the same effect Not a good idea to start with VB when you want to learn programming
Not starting to learning programming, just need to also work with our legacy code
That's the problem with VB, it's all for ancient "we can't update it" code. VB was okay through around 1999, but never in the .NET era. So any legacy code made with it is pretty much guaranteed to have originated from a "developer" that was just mucking about and couldn't adapt to a more modern language and was carrying over bad VB habits from the 90s; and then a company that never updated code for close to twenty years now.
2 years left on the roadmap to have migrated all of our legacy code. It's a lot of work when you have a whole LoB application originally created in VB6.
The last one of these, I worked on went live in 2011. It was a horrid VB6 + Access database backend.
Thankfully it stopped using Access 7 years ago.
What is it using now?
MS SQL
I had assumed they didn't consider any other options, but I found some documentation the other day that showed they did consider other options.
It can be a nasty surprise for our smaller clients when they hit the 10GB limit for SQL express.
Wow, WTF is your product that you are hitting 10GB database sizes?
I mean it is easy to hit for some things. But anyone trying to stick that kind or stuff in a DB will not care about the cost of licensing SQL most of the time.
Not to say it was the best choice, just saying.
It's a niche market LoB application that covers the bulk of what our clients need to do on a computer. So that means CRM features, email client, even a word processor.