>I never used local views or cursor adapters.
>By the time I learned about them I was well down the road with SQL Passthrough and stayed there.

Once I learned that adapters are SPT on steroids, with far more control and less overhead than either views or SPT, I never looked back.

>Agree about never wanting to use .dbf's again. Now that there are free versions of SQL Server, there's no reason to stay with .dbf's.

Still use dbfs for metadata and some local apps (e.g. my screen savior or my website), nothing wrong with that. Across the network, no.