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Well I have to use the foxpro tables as is ... Since they will still be
running old dos/foxpro programs on them ....
Thanks anyway..

Erik

"Andrew" <andrew@pentanet.co.za> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:31:11 +0100, "Flatman" <flatman@swing.be>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm developping an application which should access a lot of foxpro dbf
> >tables on a file server ...
> >I'm thinking of 2 ways to access data :
> >-    advantage local server
> >-    dbexpress with an odbc driver to foxpro
> >
> >the solution has to be free of charge ! (except for the delphi entreprise
> >software)
> >
> >any body used one of these (or may be another way) ? what would be the
best
> >choice for performance ?
> >
> >Erik
> >
> Why dont you use Firebird (open source (improved) version of Interbase
> 6.0)? It is licence free and is an awesome database (stable, fast,
> very low maintenance, powerful) I think it is better than SQLServer on
> all those grounds. Delphi has components that connect natively
> (Interbase tab) so you don't need the BDE at all. I use it all the
> time and find it to be rock-solid, reliable and very fast. You can
> import all the FoxPro tables easily enough.