>>An iteresting thing i've seen mentioned several times but have not had time to try is you can leave your tables 2.x free tables. in your vfp app you can create a dbc containing views to those 2.x tables and enforce rules etc via the view in the dbc. keep in mind, however that these rules will not be enforced in your 2.5 apps.<<

Thanks for the tip. I may try this. It makes perfectly good sense to me.