>>Can someone tell me what the advantage to going the route of having a database rather then free tables. Is it for security?
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>In no particular order:
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>1. Stored procedures
>2. PKs and FKs [RI]
>3. Triggers and Record/Field Validation
>4. Longer Field Names
>5. Default Values
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