>I need to upsize my application to SQL-server or Oracle, and I'm looking for advice.
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>What is the best way to write a program that has to run through each record (or maybe a filtered subset) within a file, and do some processing and possibly updating of the record? Should I be selecting all the records into a cursor first, and then SCAN that, and send back updates one record at a time? Or maybe a cursor of keys only?
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>With VFP data bases this is easy. What is the best (most efficient) approach in client-server?

The most efficient way is to code the procedure in T-SQL. However, I have found it difficult so far to be able to do what I want in T-SQL. Experts say it can be done, but it isn't pretty. And debugging is much more difficult.

I think getting all the records you need, processing them in VFP, then sending the updates back to the server is more efficient.