Hi Jim,

I don't recall anyone asking to have the engine, the DBC, the DML or any of VFP's other data centric features thrown out or saying they wouldn't like to see continued enhancement in these areas. In fact, Tahoe has performance improvents to the engine and new DML features. I know MS is considering enhancements to the DBC for 7 as well. All I and the others have said is there are non-VFP solutions available now to the problems people are facing with VFP limitations.

From what I know of PB, which is very little, I believe data access is basically all SPT and that there's no local storage of cursors like VFP has which would of course make PB slow and server resource intensive.

You seem to be on a vendetta to have VFP do what you did in FPD, which it can do now, so I'm having trouble understanding why you seem to be constantly in attack mode against others who advocate using SQL server for what VFP can't do. There are lots of complaints and confusion over MS database tools because for many jobs there isn't a clear distinction between when VFP, Jetor SQL Server should be the data store. You seem like you won't rest until the answer is always all VFP, which is simply never going to happen with VFP or any other product.