>>And, yes, any kind of SQL backend is always better than DBFs.
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>DBFs still have a place for single-user/local-data utilities and similar scenarios. In those cases it's valuable to not have the installation and runtime overheads of a separate DBMS.

Al, have you encountered problems in multiuser RO access ? I often saw problems in multiuser R/W and WO scenarios, but pure lookup data never threw me a curve ball, not even with SMB enabled ?