>>>>>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.
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>>?? 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.

And to be even more fair, it doesn't use the space as efficiently as VFP does. Haven't run much statistics, but a VFP database migrated to SQL generally grows by 20-30 percent.