>we have this with some statistic data
>the tabel is caled stat0
>ther is another stat1 stat2....
>in the querry we run with some code thouth the tables
>befor the programstart we check witch tabel has data and put this in some variable to make browse and sql faster.
>that is the cheapest version. Native VFP
>
>in some clients we put year one in stat1 year 2 in stat2 ....
>
>option 2
>there is this server software avantage get a demo copy you can uplod vfp data and there is no tabele limit but you have to change a lot in your code.
>there is a licence fee !!!! for the client side
>depends on you customers
>we took version 1 was OK for us.
>dirk

At that point SQL Server Express allows 4Gig database, is free, is extremely reliable, is scalable to terabytes by upgrading versions, and is secure. It does require considerable code changes. It is key to the future.