I have several apps running that process tables of several million records. I chose FoxPro because it had the fastest db engine available. My apps regularly post several 100,000 record files in text format using low level file functions to a VFP .dbf of 1.8 million records.

"30,000 Records?" You won't have time to get a cup of coffee before VFP has processed your records, up, down, sideways and backwards!

>I want to import a text file that has about 30,000 records
>into vfp50. Can visual foxpro handle 30,00 or maybe 100,00
>records? thanks