>>Can anyone recommend any good books/videos etc on exactly one can go about taking your VFP application and moving it to MS SQL.
First step is to check out the VFPx upsizing wizard.
https://vfpx.codeplex.com/releases/view/10224 . This lets you check how easily your data can be upsized.
Next big question is "how have you accessed your data." If it's lots of seek or locate against the dbf, you face some challenges as these processes don't translate as easily to remote databases. If you're using SQL queries, often these can be wrapped in a SQLEXEC() and converted quite easily to a back end. If you've used Local Views then you may need only to recreate them as Remote Views and the system may need few changes at all.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
