Javier,
But if you "need" VFP tables for whatever reason, you can have a high level of reliability implementing daily backups and audit tracking.Agreed- I'm not one of those who asserts that file-based storage is always bad. ;-) It's worth noting that millions of businesses around the world use file storage for their accounting records and seem to stay in business OK. ;-)
In this "big database" example, it's a slightly different prospect. There is a balancing point beyond which C/S makes business and cost sense (especially as table size approaches 2Gb!)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
