>> there is a chance (even if remote) to have DML to access SQL server databases incorporated into standard VFP language, maybe even standard VFP DML to access SQL Server databases?

What we are enhancing relative to data language and data-access is already public information, see the letters from the editor on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro. Generally when VFP is reviewed by the .NET teams, they get ideas on functionality but do not necessarily copy the commands as is, they will simply use it as a reference. There are no plans to put the VFP language into SQL Server like the .NET languages in Yukon is. There doesn't make much sense to do that since the benefits of the VFP language are the data-centric feature that are specific to the VFP data engine unique to the VFP.