>Walter,

>It's really the same way with FoxPro and SQL (or any other tool really). SQL IS the absolute best tool for the job in many cases.

In many cases, it is, but still stands that I experience some cases where a xBase approach is better.

>Ed's numbers are not at all far off from what I've experienced as wel. In 1990 I worked with over 1+millions of names at UC Davis Extension in California. It was a list of people we'd send mailings out to who had provided us their names over a span of about 4-5 years. I sure wish that I had the tools then that I have now! *g*

>Just prior to that I had worked in retail maintaining a list of names of customers. In ONE YEAR we accumulated over 60,000 customer names that we could mail to!

>Large numbers of names and information to manage is extremely common from what I have seen.

Might be, but small databases also are. I've got lot's of clients which manage relatively small databases where a xBase approach sometimes is the best.

>PS - Happy New Year!

Walter,