William, don't underestimate parameterized Remote Views that make it all very transparent. Once you get SQL Server installed, experiment with upsizing your dbfs via the upsizing wizard or the improved VFPX version, then create some Remote Views to see how easy it is.
"... 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
