You might do best to ask at
www.west-wind.com/wwthreads. Even though the board is supposedly for WebConnection, you'll usually get general answers too.
>Im using the internet to connect. The client is VFP not html. I don't know why people keep suggesting sql there is no advantage in doing this. It doesn't have anything to offer over VFP. Either way the backend has to stay in VFP, there is already another app in VFP that will be sharing the data.