< I think it unreasonable to expect the enhancements in the VFP report writer to equal those in Crystal. After all, Crystal has been evolving for years. >>

Hey, Craig,

I think I pretty much said the same thing <g> ...the VFP report writer will likely always be a subset of CRW. CRW grew as a tool from 1996 through this year - that's too far to start playing catch-up.

I have to admit, I'm actually baffled that they left the RW alone for years, and then decided to beef it up. I hate to use this expression, but IMO it's too little, too late.

Obviously, it's up to MS as far as what features they put into VFP. I personally would have lobbied to beef up the SQL language. It is frustrating to try many of Joe Celko's SQL examples, only to learn that VFP's version of SQL doesn't support it but SQL Server does. Maybe VFP9 will correct this.

Kevin