Steve ---

While not unbiased, Microsoft has a lot of white papers at the SQL Server web site. BTW, you mentioned that this is primarily a warehousing app --- SQL Server 7.0 has a number of OLAP tools built into it to really help out with 3D databases, star topologies, et al.

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>Mentioned scale of DB above. VFP is the front end, the app is written so that it doesn't care where the data came from. The question is trying to decide on which larger scale backend to use so we're trying to get more information.
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