>>>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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>Adding here Local and Remote Views, Connections.

...Transaction processing, Off-line views.