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>PMFJI, but this has been a very interesting thread, and you just made sense of it for me with this scenario. I've been wondering if perhaps another scenario, where we again have a small data-set, and the mobility needs of the users would have led us to consider doing offline views with VFP. I know we (the foxpro community) have figured out the tricks to offline views, but they didn't real seem to get to be a popular/common solution. Every time I here about an app with mobile users, I hear SQL Server. Could MSDE be useful in this type of situation too? thanks.

Yes. In fact, that's one of the big areas that MS seems to be pushing for MSDE. The info on the MSDE page says the data will synch up when you connect to the main database.