Cetin's suggestion on using SQL Server 2005 Express is excellent. I have just been reading the information on this and am duly impressed with it. Of course it is still in beta right now, but you can start working with the beta now.

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/

>Hi everyone:
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>does anyone know of a good book/webpage that would help me with taking an existing foxpro project and moving the data to MSDE (the free version)? Cetin recommended this to me a while ago and suggested using the cursoradapter in order to do this (in order to improve security), but this right now is a bit beyond my programming capabilities and I need a book/web page that could walk me through it (I've tried MSDE briefly and without a GUI it (for me) is difficult to work with).
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>Therefore, maybe something on MSDE and something on moving foxpro data to MSDE would be great. The problem that I see upcoming is that all my forms and reports are based on getting the data natively from Foxpro tables. I of course would need to change this. Is that something that I can do easily (I have VFP8.0)? Most of my forms have commands that populate them with data from the tables ("locate" and then form_text_box = fieldname.value), and a lot of replace commands to either save or make changes to the tables in foxpro.
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>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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>Paul