>Definitely try MSDE. I got it free with my copy of VB.
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>I've played with it in VB and it works a treat.
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>But it is s-l-o-w compared with VFP.

Thank you all. For now I am using the 120 day evaluation version that came with VS.Net beta. I like it.

How does the speed of regular SQL server compare with VFP ?

Alex