>Edward answered #1 (though I don't think temporary indices are so bad :-).


I think Ed meant temporary relations, not temporary indeces. And I completely agree with him.

>As for #2: There is no good way natively in VFP...You can look at Stonefield Tools--he has a dictionary that people swear by.

The solutions sample has a report in it that does this. Open and run the solutions app, drill down into reports, and use "Print Data Dictionary Information".