Victor,

>Is it possible to connect from vfp directly to a mysql database server?
>And if so, how?
>

FoxTalk (March 2002) just had a big article
"Going Cross-Platform again: Using Visual FoxPro to
Connect to a MySQL Database on Linux"

This should be of help

Besides this You should be able to work with the data
easily using SPT, Remote Views etc.

HTH