>>Does MSDE achieve the query speed as fast as VFP? .....
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>It depends on your data structures, tables sizes, type of queries/joins, etc. But I would suggest that in the majority of circumstances, MSDE (or SQL Server) will not perform as fast as VFP.
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Do you have test data to back this up, or is this just an opinion?

I am not contesting the claim, as I truly don't know the answer (which is faster), but I wanted to know where this claim came from...