>I am under the impression that speed when using ODBC
>is the same between Access & VFP tables. (Please correct
>me if I am wrong.)

Nope... THe VFP ODBC driver is still lots faster than the
Access ODBC driver. VFP does loose some of its edge in the
ODBC translation layer, but that relates mainly to passing
the data back to the client, not the actual queries.

>
>The major advantage of using VFP tables is that the
>tables are not located within the DBC while Access
>tables are located within the MDB.

You can use a VFP DBC or VFP free tables.