Hi Bob,

>> The big issue with my whining is that we have excellent features in VFP now that can satisfy in very elegant ways our need to write database applications. ADO and OLE DB expand the universe and will be very useful but I still think using VFP Connections and ODBC is a better way to access SQL Server data (or Oracle) than using ADO for the sake of using ADO.

Nobody is arguing with these points. If you're writing a pure VFP application then it really doesn't make sense to use ADO. ADO is very useful in VB and other environments. In VFP it's applicabilty is pretty much confined to use in passing record sets between tiers where one of the tiers is VFP.

The only other place where I may consider ADO in a pure VFP application is if the data needs to be taken offline. ADO's ability to take data offline may be somewhat better than VFP's remote views in a lot of scenarios.