>>If you are going to be working with a relatively small number of records (<200,000), I suggest Access 97. Its query builder is very easy to use and, if done right, can be fast.
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>>For medium size databases (100,000 - 10 million records), you could use Visual Foxpro as your database engine via ODBC.
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>>You will find that, while ODBC is easy to use, pass-through queries will be much faster when working with client/server apps
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>Can you make a pass through query when you have an ODBC connection ?

I'm not positive, but since passthrough queries don't use ODBC, I don't imagine it would be a problem at all.

- Gerry