>>>>Continuing my quest to learn the more intricate aspects of VFP (5.0 variety)...
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>>>>Does anyone know of any reference document which might (more) clearly outline the differences of capabilities between database-resident tables and FREE tables???
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>>>>It is reasonably clear to me that things like field/row validation, triggers (including R/I) are NOT available to free tables.
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>>>That is the only thing you'll lose.
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>>Don't forget the long field names with DBC tables...I've gotten addicted to them by now...
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>I still don't have the guts. :-)
>Besides, if I have more cryptic names, I won't have 'smarter' users tampering with the data. Hmmm, yes, there's a good reason... :-)

Well, sure...we could really keep them honest then by naming our fields C1,C2,C3...for chars, N1,N2,...for numeric...(s)