>>My company is looking at possibly moving to a c/s system by the end of this year with MS SQL Server as the front running choice. Your post really caught my attention. Do you know if M$ id aware of this issue?
>
>I don't know. This thread has already some various opinions. Some says it is not normal and some have had similar problems. I guess this will be a long thread.

Hi Michel,

At this point i reckon you are right, this should be a long thread.

Possibly a lot of UT members that have not yet moved to C/S would appreciate a global and commercially neutral (as much as it can!) picture on the different strengths and weaknesses of the differents engines that communicate with VFP.

I found ORACLE stable, powerful but uselessly complex to set up and manage (the ODBC set up on each PC is a great piece of fatware) and stopped.

At the opposite side, Sybase Anywhere is a charm to set up and administer but it is clearly a workgroup mid-size solution (like fox...).

What i hear about MS SQL Server is not encouraging...feel sorry as i expected the product to offer both the solid service you expect from a production database and the typical administration ease of MS products.

More feedback would be welcome including the rarely mentioned Sybase SQL server alternative and the rest of them.