>In today's environment the standard PC is 32 MB of RAM
>(and growing) and a 6 GB hard drive (and growing).
>
>VFP has a serious limitation in that a table may not
>exceed 2GB. I'm sure that M$ recommended solution is
>to upsize to SQL Server. However, my experience is that
>SQL Server is slower and much more ackward to work with.
>Clearly SQL Server has the benefit of security but
>all this comes at a learning curve price.
>
>I would probably not even be looking at SQL Server or
>Oracle is VFP could expand this 2BG limitation. I have
>heard that this barrier will not be removed in Tahoe (VFP 6).
>
>Does anyone know if the table size constraint will ever
>be removed? I have heard there will probably never be a
>true VFP compiler because of things like macro expansion,
>but I sure wish M$ would expand the 2GB limit.
>
>Any reason why it can not be increased?

2GB is table limitation and DBC-volume is unlimited, i.e. it's quite possible to make changes in database design and get 2GB limit over.