>I read some of the other replies.
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>I don't use transactions. I don't use the tables directly. I use views only. The views are not in a DBC; which means you can create them from a free table.
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>The big pluses of the DBC to me are the field defaults (auto-increment), stored procedures (auto-increment) and long field names. Other than the long field names, the others can be worked around.

But now we have autoincrement in VFP 8.0, right? Please tell me how do I create a view without a DBC.

Thanks for your comments.

Alex