>I am about to embark on a new adventure- converting a FoxDOS 2.5 application used by many many people to VFP6.0. At this point I am not sure whether I should use the DBC or not. I can code for referential integrity and having code hidden in triggers etc does not exactly turn me on. Aside from updatable cusors and transaction processing are there any other advantages to using the DBC versus free tables? On the other hand are there other disadvantages to the DBC other than the risk that it gets broken and the application will not work?
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>I would appreciate any input you can give me. The typical user is either a single machine or a small peer to peer network.
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>Thanks...


Get used to hidden code. That's the way classes work. As others have said, there are lots of advantages to using the DBC.