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>>Someone pointed out that 4 billion records is greater that the 2 gig limit. That's not 2 billion records, but bytes. This DBF size limitation is not likely to change (repeated stated by the Fox team) because it is so deeply entwined inside the C++ code of VFP. It is highly unlikely that you'll have a problem with this.
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>Thanks, Craig. VFP has a 1 gig limit on records per table (or so the help says).
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That sort of makes sense - a 1 byte field, with a byte to carry the DELETED() flag, would max out at 1 GB - (size of table header) records, given the 2GB file size limitation. I believe that VFP can work with a table with more records through ODBC, where the physycal table size isn't an issue.

>As for the file size limtiation, you never know. Lotus had a similar limit in their Notes "database" prior to version 4. They totally redesigned the structure because there was such an overwhelming need/demand. As we get further and further away from supporting old legacy systems, the migration might seem natural.