>>So even if SQL Server may be the silver bullet, it may occur that the quality of the silver is not enough. It may suffer from various physical circumstances as well, who knows. Don't know your environment, though, so this sort of experience may not apply.
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>I agree. The only time my tables have been corrupt is when I did something foolish. The hospital network is stable, the users are well-trained not to turn the machine off unless tech support has tried everything else. No curruption. No maintenance on my part.

Nor mine - the funky cable was not in your building :). I remember your friends downstairs (or was it upstairs) had one quirky machine, but it seemed to have trouble with only a few Crystal reports. But definitely no table/index/memo corruption.