>Advantages:
>RI
>Enhanced table information (meta-data): captions, long field names, field validation, etc.
>Conceptually adheres to the logic of a "database" of tables vs. a lose affiliation of free tables.
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>Disadvantages? None, that I've met in my experience. I'm sure others can enumerate them.
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>>Hi Nancy - why do you always use the DBC? advantages and disadvantages

The only disadvantages are updating the table structures and packing and reindexing the table. However, there are great tools outthere to get around this. Stonefield is one of them.