Wayne,

Thanks for responding. Yeah, we definitely have to be careful!

We've put together enough of a prototype, utilizing stored procs and pass-through, that is several orders of magnitude faster than our current VFP app. (Add to that the fact that our current VFP app is not fully optimized).

>- Potentially better integration with other internal financial applications
Our clients have other internal apps that need to 'dip into' our database for reporting, querying, etc.

Thanks for the suggestion on the backups and logs...

Kevin