To add to the others,

You can keep files from needing to be packed by reusing records marked for deletion (doesn't help with the keeping the memofields compacted though) and it is easy to put together a small data server using VFP and SQL.

Bob

>I hope the pack command can delete the deleted records in backgroud and no need to use the file exclusive. And aslo can provide some parameters to pack all the tables in the database once.
>I hope VFP 7 could provide the small data server functions.