Kelly,

Just doing devil's advocate here...

There is no difference with them taking a printout that they can run against the "secure" SQL database. If the app has any sort of export or saveas feature security is non-existent.

>I hope that Mom and Pop also know how to avoid p*ss*ng off that soon-to-be-ex employee who knows how to import their customer list, financial info, etc. from those DBFs into Excel (or whatever) and take it with him/her to the competitor that he's going to work for (or starting up).
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>And that they know how to make good backup copies of their data and are OK reconstructing at least the work that was done since the last backup, should they run into DBF file corruption.