>>You can still use SQL Server for stand alone apps. That version, which is still SQL Server, is called MSDE, and it is free. If a customer expands to many computers you can go to full blown SQL Server server with no modifications to your app.
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>Hey Mark,
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>I've always developed using either a client's SQL Server over a network or Foxpro's database. What's involved in installing and setting up MSDE and will my current databases upsize the same way as to the full-blown version? What do I lose with MSDE rather than the full version if anything?
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>Renoir

MSDE is the full version of SQL Server. MSDE is available for download from MS, comes on MSDN and will ship with VFP 7. You lose nothing using MSDE when you move over to SQL Server. You do not get the cool admin tools with MSDE that come with SQL Server.