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>This is not to say that you can't create reliable applications with DBFs, but given the historical facts of ill written applications, index, table and fpt corruptions there is enough fact for IT managers to say that they want SQL server in. Given the trouble I had the last couple of days with an application that corrupted tables (see bug when SETting TABLEVALIDATE to 15) it is hard to draw any other conclusion that reliability and stability is better insured by SQL server.

Even I agree that SQL Server is *more* reliable. But here you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater... because of an error in TABLEVALIDATE execution effects you draw a conclusion that (effectively) assumes that SQL Server suffers *NO* internal errors that can cause data problems. Sounds somewhat extreme to me.

cheers

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>Walter,