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>>To achieve complete security of your database, you have to use a real backend database server(SQL Server, Oracle, etc).
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>>Wayne
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>Nope. You can provide great security to VFP tables using COM objects for all data access.

Not allowing someone to read or write information to a database is partial security. Encrypting that data is also partial security. VFP tables are files on a network shared server drive and can be deleted - that's something you cannot secure. If the data resides on a SQL Server, or Oracle Database Server, the files that the actual data reside in are not accessible to be tampered with.

Wayne