>>Most of my clients are small business types. Of course I use VFP almost exclusively to design and write their apps. But one thing that keeps bugging me is when will it be my turn to fix a corrupt table and the all the grief that come with it. Fortunately, that day has not come yet, but I feel it will soon.
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>>There is no way that I'll convience one of my "MOM-POP" shops to fork out some bucks to purchase a client server like MS SQLServer or Oracle.
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>>My question is is there a better tables/database that is "more" stable and "reliable" then the VFP native tables?
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>Switch to MSDE, then. Is a SQL server engine and the limit is 2 Gb for a database. The 'MOM-POP' customers will not reach such amount of data.
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>Hope this helps

Isn't that a little simplistic, Grigore???

I mean (and I've been told this a few times) MSDE *IS* SQL Server. That being the case, who's going to specify and take care of the logging and all of the other care and feeding that comes with SQL Server (remember, MDSE *IS* Sql Server).

JimN