>>Isn't that sweet?... in the VFP forum, no less!
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>>What gave you the urge to share this?... In such a friendly way??????
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>Not trying to be rude, just honest. I have used VFP a ton and have many apps in production with it, not bashing it at all or its fans. I am just saying it isn't the best tool for the job anymore unless that job is creating a .dbf file.

You probably did not need to interface different data "stores" ranging from excel up to DB2 and create ad hoc selection results. Rapid turn around in interpreter, easy OOP to build a fwk of similar query attributes, easy scripting via command window, output options for any target from flat file over excel up to direct inserts into DB-Backend...
And yes, integrated data engine helps a lot.