>Ya that's true - lowest common database and with the ODBC driver that's VFP6....but I can't think of a business need where this would become an issue - surely there are some I haven't run across yet - can you give me an example?
>I guess I'm the rarity because over the past 10 or so years I've got 18 VFP apps (almost 19) that are using this method and they all seem to work excellent...:)

Binary Indeces - getting more important if your tables grow.