Dustin,

The ODBC approach has basicly two disadvantages over native FOX 2.x access:
- It is significantly slower than the latter.
- You'll have to deal with issue setting up an ODBC driver at the clients machines.

However, it might have an advantage as your reports can connect to various datasources (SQL-server, Oracle, VFP and others) very transparent.

Walter,

>That certainly follows what I've read (at least the Native data access for 2.X only)
>So what are the ODBC pokiness & occasional quirks?
>What do I gain or lose by going native vs. ODBC?
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>Dustin
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>>Hi Dustin,
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>>Basically you got two forms of data access in Crystal Reports: native data access and ODBC driven data access. If you want to go the more straight forward route and use native data access, you have to use Fox2x format dbf's. But if you can live with ODBC pokiness and the occaisional quirk or two, you can use ODBC to tap Visual Fox dbc's. HTH