Data Explorer, definitely. I'm largely a PeopleSoft and Java (WebSphere) developer now, but a large part of my job is interoperability. I love using VFP to create COM dll's for my middle tier. A friend told me about the 9 beta, so I grabbed a copy. I LOVE being able to look at my DB2 As/400 data in a graphical environment like Data Explorer. It is slow to load, but worth the wait. Anyone used it to explore Oracle servers? I added an ADO connection pointing to an Oracle DSN, but it never gets beyond the (loading...) stage when I try to open the connection up. I deal with both DB2 and Oracle (and rarely SQL Server), so it would be great to use Data Explorer if nothing else.