>>>>There's something slightly absurd about commanding me to write an article to promote Microsoft's product, at my own expense,
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>>>Where did you get the idea that MSDN magazine doesn't pay its writers?
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>>You mean enough to cover a part of the purchase price of SQL Server, right?
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>MSDE (or what ever it's called now) is shipping with VFP7.

And I got a copy of it in my Visual Studio 6 box...