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>Just a quick follow up on my own comment in this thread. In my case I have helped a few companies to move their application from a VFP/DBF solution into a VFP/SQL as an intermediate solution. The final goal was to end up with a dotnet/SQL (or SomeOtherLanguage/SQL) solution. But since they needed the applications to run almost 24/7 and had a huge number of users, modules and tables, it was essential to do the conversions in steps over a relatively long time.

And that approach makes perfect sense, to tackle a large undertaking in phases.