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>>Stored procedures are actually a major feature of industry strength SQL databases that VFP 'borrowed'. Don't sweat it. Most of us here don't know half of what we're talking about.
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>Oh, dear I'm not alone!!! I've never understood the use of stored procedures (maybe I've never needed them...)
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here are a couple of uses

1. RI code
2. if for example you have a key field and you want its value to increase
by one for every new record, u can put a function call in the default value
and u store the function in.. - yes, the stored procedures :)

Arnon