I have been working toward this same goal over the past couple of years, slowly working on my VFP code to use West Wind wwBusiness for a more OO approach for data and CRUD work rather than native FoxPro Locate/Seek and binding to actual DBF tables. Once you have your app working with a data access layer (even with native FoxPro DBF tables) it will be much easier to finalyl move it to Sql Server.

However, even on my mid-sized app it has been a lot of work (However, I got side tracked into developing an entire Parent-Child OO abstraction layer on along the way. You can download the source code for that on the open source project called wwBusinessPro hosted on BitBucket. A nice wiki page will show you the basics: https://bitbucket.org/mattslay/wwbusinesspro/wiki/Home )





>Hi All,
>
>I'm finally being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the SQL age, meaning I have to upsize the DB's in my app the some version of SQL, be it MS, MySQL or some other flavour. I think it was Tore Bleken that mentioned that after it's done, I'll won't look back, and I'm sure that's true. But right now it seems like a daunting task. 100+ forms, 200+ reports, 3rd party tools like Stonefield, Foxaudit, Int'l and VM Pro framework. Ugh!
>
>Anyway, how do I go about:
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>a) choosing the right one (free is good);
>b) setting it up;
>b) converting my existing DB's, tables and views; and finally...
>c) integrating it?
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>Is there some 'how to' available somewhere, or better still, some witch, wizard, or I'll even take an elf, that can wave their magic wand and it'll all be done for me in the morning?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Luke