>We are porting our VFP/VFPapp to VFP/Sql. We need ways of controlling database events such as creating database, renaming them, backups, and replication. All these are built into our current app and our clients said they do not wish to put such tasks in the hands of DBA's ( since most don't have them anyway). So we need a was of triggering these tasks from our menu.

Why not build this part in .NET using SMO 2008? This way you wouldn't have to redo it later when moving whole application to .NET.