>>>>>What issues have you had with SQL?
>>>Just one.. cost.
>>>The CAL's add up quickly and for small clients with several users the bite is deep and that cost didn't exist with VFP.
>>>In all other respects, I love it.
>>
>>?? The data didn't exist with VFP.
>>
>>SQLExpress handles databases 5 times larger than VFP, and is free.
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>To be fair, that's the entire database, not an individual file.

I think so it's enough 10GB for a free database. If customer's data is bigger than 10GB it's not a big trouble to pay extra money to DB for customer... :)