>>Regarding VFP, for me the transformative event was MS' development of SQL Server.
>>Once I saw its benefits I determined to stop using DBF's.
Agreed- preference for C/S was cemented during VFP3 Beta with customers urged then required to move content to C/S before end of century.
However, we still use dbfs for static lookups (preferably embedded in an exe) with blistering performance on modern mostly under-utilized workstations.
"... 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
