>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?

I have never experienced a currupt VFP table. In DOS xBase, sometimes, usually due to a logic problem in MY program. But have not seen a broken one since VFP 6. Even when a really cold reset is called for. Many times I suspected bug outs
in my projects were a VFP bug. And, always, it turned to be my quality assurance vacations:-)