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>lcconnstr = 'Driver={Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver};SourceType=DBC;' + ;
>>   'SourceDB=C:\MyDir\Mydatabase.dbc;Exclusive=No;Deleted=No;' + ;
>>   'BackgroundFetch=No;'
>>lnconn = sqlstringconnect(lcconnstr)

>>HTH.
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>This would allow the use of remote views. Do you know if the access times would be significantly slower than with local views for tables having 80K - 15 million records?

I believe it would be because you are adding the extra overhead of the ODBC driver insetad of the native VFP data engine.