>>IMO, the honest answer should be based on developer's own qualifications, >>i.e. if someone is good VFP person then VFP-SQL will be better and otherwise >>good VB person will proceed to VB-SQL. The final result would be essentially >>the same.

So, even if a better tool was available, if a developer has expertise in a product, regardless of the circumstances, use that product?

Sorry Ed, but I have to be honest here and say that this is not very good advice and you have totally omitted issues like activeX control support and the like - which works better in VB.

In short, this is not an easy question to answer.