You might want to look at articles on using VFP as a Remote OLE Automation Server...I am planning on having a look at possibly doing the same thing someday. I personally wouldn't do it for every bit of data access in our system, but for a few that retrieve large sets of data. But, I haven't done anything with it yet as I am busy doing other things...

Take care.

>I am using VFP 5.0 and have a table with approx 500,000 records in it. I have made this available over our network (NT4) for use by other users who use Access 97 and link to it with ODBC. How do I make Foxpro act as a sever program and process the requests on the server rather than back and forth across the network ?