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>>>You can change the local sql operations on vfp tables to access the analogous sql tables by setting up a connection string, creating your connection then issuing sql passthrough and getting the return set into a cursor for use in vfp. Not sure its going to be terribly difficult but will involve some changes ....
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>>But I need to get more VFP SQL statements into my apps as opposed to scan/seek/ etc? - once I've worked that out then I can start playing with SQL Server - is that a logical progression path in your mind?
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>You can still use your seek/scan/etc? on your cursors. Its just that the cursors will now come from selects on sql instead of using a dbf.
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>Not much to change in that regard.

Thanks for all that - I'll get cracking next week

Colin