If I were to entertain this, how about this for starters: A single table - say 10 gb in size, full text search - accessed over a wan.

When it comes to flexibility, scaleability, etc. - we could probably end it right there...couldn't we???????

Let me know... ;)

< JVP >

>Hi John,
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>You said:
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>>The fact is - it cannot be demonstrated that the combination of ADO .NET + SQL Server cannot be more flexible and faster than Fox + native DBF's.
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>Removing the double negative, just for clarity sake:
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>It can be demonstrated that the combination of ADO .NET + SQL Server can be as flexible and as fast as Fox + native DBF's.
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>I think that I can demonstrate that Fox programs accessing Fox data can be more flexible and just as fast.
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>I bet I can demonstrate this.
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>How do we proceed? Using the UT Member's critieria as a suggested guidelines for flexibility is obviouslly going to be biased. Do you have suggestions that can even out this bias?