OK John, consider this scenario:

I have a data-set that will never grow beyond 10 mb's. However, the data set contains confidential information and needs inherent security. Also, because of certain requirements, a detailed transaction log needs to be kept.

Is the data-set small? Yes.
Will DBF's work? No.

I could have taken this example further to really skew it toward SQL-Server, or some other server RDBMS. Then again, I did'nt have to.

This is an interesting discussion. Let's keep it going...



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If an application is never going to grow beyond a set, reasonable amount of users I was advocating sticking with the good ole DBF format.
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