September 28, 2011 at 8:34 am
We have an opening at Myers and Stauffer LC within our programming department for someone with experience with SQL and a willingness to learn Visual FoxPro. VB experience would be nice as we are using Excel data services more and more. Salary range $45K-$65K. Our company doubles every 5 years and more than half of our programmers company-wide have been here more than 11 years. My boss has been with the company for 20 years as a programmer while I've been here for over 4 years so this is a stable position to grow from. If you're interested, see attachment and feel free to contact me on here or at 913-234-1957.
Things I'm working on:
- VFP app with MS SQL back-end that handles millions of claims per project with a full audit trail of changes.
- Department of Justice litigation support with a several hundred million claims database.
- Excel data services that returns hospital cost report information based on the filters and wanted data elements for our auditors.
- Migrating legacy VFP apps to use MS SQL rather than xBase.
* Edit - Attached job posting as it didn't take the first time *
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September 29, 2011 at 3:29 pm
But...it's Kansas 😛
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September 29, 2011 at 3:41 pm
toddasd (9/29/2011)
But...it's Kansas 😛
Heheh, my reaction was: But it's FoxPro.
You might want to mention a bit more about the SQL Skills you'd like them to bring to the table for this position. A few million rows isn't too bad in regards to optimization so it's hard to make any assumptions as to what you need from them besides being willing to learn programming.
At several hundred million rows we're talking DB size and VLDB skills and optimization ability... which you're not going to get for that offer... they're DB specialists. So I'm not quite sure what you're looking for here.
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September 29, 2011 at 7:15 pm
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toddasd (9/29/2011)
But...it's Kansas 😛Heheh, my reaction was: But it's FoxPro.
You might want to mention a bit more about the SQL Skills you'd like them to bring to the table for this position. A few million rows isn't too bad in regards to optimization so it's hard to make any assumptions as to what you need from them besides being willing to learn programming.
At several hundred million rows we're talking DB size and VLDB skills and optimization ability... which you're not going to get for that offer... they're DB specialists. So I'm not quite sure what you're looking for here.
It's true, FoxPro is a bit dated but I've come to enjoy it.
As far as a skill set, it's really an entry application developer position. We're looking for someone who's familiar with T-SQL but not looking for a particular skill set. We know that there aren't many FoxPro developers out there and so the only two requirements are having some experience with MS SQL and the ability to learn FoxPro. While our code is currently in FoxPro, if we find someone with .Net experience, that would be a plus. We are coming to a point in the next few years that we will start migrating to it so this person would be a great asset as they would have had time to learn FoxPro and could help others during the conversion process.
I only mentioned the things I'm working on so people have an idea of the breadth of projects the person would be working with.
Thanks for the feedback.
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September 29, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Probably didn't help that the job posting didn't upload either...
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