Thanks very much Alex, Dmitry, and Sergey. I really appreciate your help. --Tom

>>1) Can I use the VFP 9 OLEDB provider to read data from the VFP 6 database or would I have to stick with ODBC?
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>The OleDb Provider should work fine as the basic structure of a DBF has not changed, (assumming you do not use any of the newer post-VFP6 fields and extensions).
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>>2) Can I use VFP 6 to insert records directly (using native VFP code rather than via ODBC or OLEDB) into the VFP 9 tables without messing it up?
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>Yes, with the same caveat above.
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>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1A87D8F-2D58-491F-A0FA-95A3289C5FD4&displaylang=en