>>>I am still trying to figureout what "robust" means:) VB used to be robust, and VB programmers used to coup that as an advantage over VFP.
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>>Robustness is the ability of a system to keep running after it detects an error.
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>Finally - a meaning to the word. Thanks

You're welcome. Now as for the word "scale", it's a bit more difficult. What it refers to is how well an application performs, but not necessarily in terms of speed. For example, say you had ten reports. You've got the choice of bringing the base data set over the line once, and using the VFP data engine to perform queries against it, or you could call stored procedures or use SPT. IMV, the former could be said to "scale" better because instead munging on the backend and bringing 10 data sets over the line, you're only dealing with one.

In reality, there may be little if any difference in terms of the perceived execution speed by the user. However, you've reduced server load for the operation by as much as an order of magnitude (in reality, it probably wouldn't be that high but that would be the maximum possible).