>I am migrating applications from foxpro 2.6 and want to use the database container. Our organization is divided into three companies and their data has always been separate. I am working towards merging all of the data from the three companies.
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>Can anyone tell me the advantages & disadvantages of having 3 database containers verses having only 1 database container.
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>Thanks in Advance for your help,
>Sincerely,
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>Eddie Caldwell

If there is ever a case that you would need to update data from multiple DBCs, you can't use a transaction. Transactions require a DBC, but can't use multiple ones.