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Probably the more complicated the processing and manipulation of data, the more likely that VFP might out-perform a solution that reads from SQL Server tables and then has to step through the table collection and related collections in a .NET DataSet to do the same calculations, analysis or data manipulation.
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You can't make that conclusion Dave... SQL Server stored procs, that use scrollable cursors and temp tables - will likely outperfrom Fox. It is also a lot more scaleable.

Your conclusion above is at best, an often recited urban myth.

John