>I am writing a small gradebook app that will be distributed widely and needs to be almost bomb proof. In this case, could free tables be a better choice than tables in a DBC since I don't need long names or stored procedures? What is the downside?
You would also lose RI. I consider this part very important. Also, you can't have default values for fields - very useful for "auto-incremented" fields, for VFP versions older than 8.0.
Saludos, Hilmar.
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