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>There's nothing to prevent you from vertically or horizontally partitioning your tables, and if you truly need large files, you can move your data to a backend product like SQL Server or Oracle and continue to access it from your VFP application using SPT or remote views; now the limitation that you're stuck with is probably no more than 2G records/table. I haven't tried (I don't have) a table in a backend with >2G records, so this limit might not exist.
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>You might want to look at some of the projects where people have used VFP for data warehousing; at least at one time, Val Matison of Matison Consulting in Toronto did a project involving data warehousing with native VFP tables that circumvented the limits by using vertical partitioning of data sets.
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That was the Chunnel and was previously documented in FoxPro Advisor.