>Justok,
>When I first saw your original question I didn't reply because I new that Jim and Ed, among others, would supply better answers than I could.
>
>However, I recently inherited an application from a co-worker that had 31 tables and was supposed to be in 3rd Normal Form. They were not. Some of the parent-child relationships went 5 tables deep and used 3 and 4 part keys!
>
>I purchased XCase Professional and loaded the DBC into it. Wow! Did it find the schema bugs! It also allowed me to redesign the schema in a graphical mode and also extended the Relational Integrity options beyond those offered by VFP.
>What a life saver it was.
>
>Jerry,
Ic... Thanks.
Actually, I feel poor as there are about 8-9 tables from original scenario.
>_<" Maybe I am study too poor in my Computer Course... ~~'.'~~
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